Ligne Roset Pumpkin armchair and Fogia Tabula table

With its sophisticated play on light and contemporary interiors, this coastal home leaves its ’80s past behind

PHOTOS Sharyn Cairns | 9 Apr 2020

An eighties style house on Melbourne’s coastal strip The Esplanade has been given the 2020 treatment by Golden. The four bedroom, five bathroom received a glamorous makeover with Andorra Limestone flooring and a soothing palette of greys and charcoal providing a serene backdrop to bursts of colour from carefully curated furnishings. With the existing eighties-statement staircase replaced by a sculptural vertical balustrade and curved concrete, and light flooding the living spaces thanks to strategic skylights, the result is organic in texture and flow, leaving the past far behind.

MDF Italia Rock table from Matisse

Poliform Mad Joker armchair from Studio Italia, Living Divani NeoWall sofa from Studio Italia, Floss IC F2 floor lamp from ECC, Baxter Loren table from Cavit & Co.

Poliform Mad Joker armchair from Studio Italia, Floss IC F2 floor lamp from ECC

Living Divani NeoWall sofa from Studio Italia, Baxter Loren table from Cavit & Co.

Gubi Beetle Chair from Cult Design

Mattiazzi Branca stool from Simon James Design

Oluce Atollo table lamp from ECC, Massproductions Crown armchair from Simon James Design.

Living Divani Chemise sofa from Studio Italia

Flos IC Pendant from ECC, Baxter Nepal chair from Cavit & Co.

Flos IC Pendant from ECC

Kettal Landscape dining table from Studio Italia, Kettal Net dining chair from Studio Italia, Kettal boma sofa from Studio Italia and Kettal Mesh coffee and side table from Studio Italia

Kettal boma sofa from Studio Italia, Kettal Mesh side table from Studio Italia

Interior Design: Golden
Art Direction: Marsha Golemac
Photography: Sharyn Cairns

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Clockwise: VeniceM Urban Floor Light 1 from Designers’ Collection, MIDJ of Italy Maya barstool from Sarsfield Brooke, Santa & ColeHeadHat Metalllic pendant from ECC, Tim Webber series sofa from Tim Webber Design.

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