1958 Harry Seidler-designed Dover Heights Kalowski residence listed

Art collector John Schaeffer has listed his modernist, Harry Seidler-designed property in Dover Heights for June 1 auction.

More than $3 million is tipped for Kalowski House, which was bought in 2008 for $2,505,000 from Dr Steven Kalowski.

Seidler's design included pioneering floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors along the full width of the northern facade.

The 1958 home was up-graded in 2008 by architect Colin Griffiths, who actually worked on the original layout. It was photographed by Max Dupain in November 1958.

It is now set in Myles Baldwin designed gardens surrounding the single-level home on Lyons Street.

Michael Pallier of Sotheby's International has the listing following Schaeffer's recent purchase on nearby Kippara Street of the classic, expanded art deco 1930s residence of locksmith Jason Carr and Haley Carr for about $4.5 million.

It was formerly the single storey Chinese embassy until World War II.