DESIGN AND DETAIL

Diana McInnes’s many lives as a stylist, graphic designer, ski instructor and avid collector inform her alpine home.

By SIOBHAN O’BRIEN

Blow-to-the-solar-plexus views pan over a luminous Lake Jindabyne and up to the Snowy Mountains range beyond. A mature, tree-filled garden is golden honeycomb in autumn and rose-scented in spring. Elegant European-inspired rooms filled with furs, antlers and old ski paraphernalia line the walls, juxtaposed with a feminine oddity or arrangement of flowers. This is the home of Diana McInnes, business owner, mother and bon vivant. Diana has a distinct style that spills from what she wears, how she lives and what she sells in her much-loved retail store, Design & Detail. It is located in the old shopping centre in East Jindabyne, set among cafés, restaurants and ski-hire outlets. But it's about much more than your usual shopping fare. “The store features a carefully chosen assortment of new and vintage…

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