Gene Sherman lists 1880s Woollahra home with $16 million hopes

Gene Sherman, who runs the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas, which presents public programs exploring fashion and architecture, and her husband Brian have listed in Woollahra with $16 million hopes.

Their home is Corinth, an 1880s home that set an $11 million record in 2007.

The grand Victorian has six bedrooms, four bathrooms and an internal courtyard on its 575 square metre Queen Street parcel.

The Agency's Ben Collier has a June 23 auction.

Gene was an academic in French literature and languages, first in South Africa where she grew up, then in Sydney after emigrating here with Brian in 1972.

They are whispered to be the $16.5 million buyers of Braelin, the redundant Centennial Park home of tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, the Atlassian co-founder, and his wife, Annie. 

This article first appeared in The Daily Telegraph.