Steve Vizard buys into "no frills" South Yarra after selling in St Kilda to Peter Hill: Title Tattle
The Vizard family have bought in South Yarra, some six months after selling in St Kilda.
Its a late 1970s Caroline Street Graeme Dunn-designed architectural landmark bought from the Redlich family. Its selling agent Tim Derham at Abercromby's Armadale marketed it as "significant for the integrity of its design, irresistible for the family success of its spaces – deserving of its landmark status."
Its living, dining and entertaining spaces come with natural light from northerly aspects along with having a study/library with a courtyard and a separate kitchen/dining domain that has some contemporary elements introduced after the 1978-design of the home that sits on 584 square metres.
Title Tattle recalls the property last traded at $70,000 in 1977 when bought by the late lawyer Peter Redlich and his wife, Sally. Then shortly after its completion it appeared in a 1980 Australian Home Beautiful under the heading, "A No-frills Lifestyle".
Last October the former TV personality turned broadcasting entreprenuer Steve Vizard and wife Sarah sold their St Kilda mansion, Clendore, a three-storey Italianate Victorian with 17 rooms and a rooftop pool for around $8 million.
It was been bought by former champion skateboarder and streetwear fashion entrepreneur Peter Hill, who recently sold Invergowrie, the 1.1 hectare Hawthorn estate for an estimated $20 million, as reported by Property Observer.
Vizard and wife Sarah, who renovated the seven-bedroom, 10-bathroom home after paying $3.96 million in 2004, took a year to sell the Fitzroy Street property, which was listed with $8 million-plus hopes. It came with 15-person lift.
Title Tattle can't quite get an accurate sale price indication on the South Yarra house which sold earlier this month following a $3.8 million price expectation, but the last house sale on Caroline Street was a double-fronted Victorian with its Peter Carmichael redesign sold by the Liberman family.
Set on an 895-square-metre block, it sold through Darren Lewenberg and Gowan Stubbings at Kay & Burton for $3.625 million late last year to the Harris family.
The modern home behind its Victorian façade had been briefly listed in mid-2011 with $4 million-plus hopes, which were revised to $3.75 million plus.
Graeme Gunn was the head of the School of Architecture and Building at RMIT University (1972–1977) then foundation Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Building at RMIT University (1977–1982).
He has received a number of architectural awards for his design and practice including the RAIA Victorian chapter president’s award for Lifetime Contribution to Victorian Architecture (2001) and in 2011 he was awarded the Gold Medal for his lifelong contribution to architecture by the Australian Institute of Architects.
He is currently a Director of Gunn Dyring Architecture and Urban Design along with Sophie Dyring.
In an AIA 2011 recollection Gunn noted the Redlich house was among his seminal courtyard houses where he explored the integration of useable open space as an adjunct to those spaces within buildings. Gunn is mooted to be commissioned to modernise the home for the Vizards.