Quick sale of 1958 Harry Seidler-designed Dover Heights Kalowski residence

Quick sale of 1958 Harry Seidler-designed Dover Heights Kalowski residence
Jonathan ChancellorJune 4, 2015

Art collector John Schaeffer has quickly sold his modernist, Harry Seidler-designed property in Dover Heights.

More than $3 million had been tipped for Kalowski House, which sold pre-auction. It had been 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.

14 Lyons Street, Dover Heights

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.

The Kalowski House has been described as a true city compound, drawing comparisons with home of brick walls and courtyards of inner hills Los Angeles.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.
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