GROOVY BABY

To do its impressive design legacy justice, a 1960s hexagonal house in Sydney got the right kind of renovation for the freestyling family of five who live there

WORDS JOANNE HAWKINS

As doctors in intensive care and emergency medicine, Oli Flower and Chris Bowles are used to making decisions quickly. Such was the case in 2012 when they first laid eyes on a quirky 1960s house overlooking the water in Sydney’s Cremorne, which had been owned by the same family since it was built 45 years earlier. “Chris and I were looking for something a bit different and so we instantly loved the unique style of this place with its wide eaves, mostly hexagonal rooms and [early Modernist style] construction that was sympathetic to the local environment of rocks and trees,” Oli explains. The house had been inspired by the work of legendary US architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his iconic Walker Residence in Carmel, California, so it appealed to the couple’s love…

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