Holgar & Holgar architects sell 1960s modernist Eaglemont homebase
High up in Eaglemont - and designed in the 1960s modernist style with city views - 6 Eaglemont Crescent has been sold for the first time.
It fetched $1.82 million at its weekend auction, well above its $1.3 million plus pre-auction Collins Simms price guidance. There was a $1.57 million opening bid and it was announced as on the market at $1.76 million.
The five bedroom, three bathroom house was designed by husband-and-wife architects John and Helen Holgar as their family home in the early 1960s.
The classic linear modernist house on 664 square metres in the prestigious Mount Eagle Estate comes with ground level comes with carport and storage areas.
It comes with staircase that swirls leading up to a broad terrace that arcs out and into the garden.
Eaglemont's median house price is around $1,212,000 with recent sales including 49 Waldemar Road which was a three-bedroom house that sold at $1,411,000 and 103 The Eyrie which was a four bedroom house that fetched $1.7 million.
Pharmaceutical industry identities and philanthropists Carlo Montagner and Bozena Zembrzuski have $4 million hopes for their current Eaglemont offering at 115 The Righi with pool house amid Japanese-inspired gardens through Prue Jones, of Woodards.
In his 1998 book, Guide to Melbourne Architecture, Prof. Philip Goad praised the best known Holgar and Holgar residence, Naliandrah at 3 Glendye Court, Toorak, which was constructed in 1969.
Goad describes it as 'a striking modern house with a cement-rendered sun grille stretched across its first-floor facade.
He says the Toorak residence was one of a small number of similarly designed houses that favoured luxuriant curves, terrazzo floors and an imagery of post-war Modernism that might have been found in Tel Aviv, Mexico City or Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia.
Goad lamented that orthodox architectural historians and heritage bodies had overlooked 1960s houses such as this one and others in East St Kilda, Caulfield and Elsternwick which are in danger of disappearing entirely from view. Goad's desire has yet to be embraced as these homes still lack heritage protection.
