For sale by International Expressions of Interest via Ross Savas, Jamie Mi and Oliver Booth of Kay & Burton.
True luxury is transcendent, tied neither to time nor place. Enduring craftsmanship and considered design distinguish the exceptional from the ordinary.
This understanding has informed Craig Easton’s work for the past four decades. His firm, Easton, conceives high-end property developments designed to endure from generation to generation.
Nowhere is his luxury philosophy more evident than in Easton’s newest residential achievement, The Penthouse at Palais Toorak in Melbourne, Australia. Set in the city’s most prestigious suburb the residence is, in many senses, the culmination of Easton’s 40 years in the business. It’s a home that “offers the highest possible level of design, fit out and construction” according to Easton. Created, he says, “to stand the test of time”.
Recruiting award-winning architect Robert Mills and renowned interior designer Andrew Parr to collaborate on the concept, the project marks the first time the trio has worked together, along with acclaimed landscape designer Paul Bangay. The partnership has proven to be inspired.
Speaking to WILLIAMS MEDIA, Kay & Burton's Ross Savas said, “Once in a decade, a residence enters the market that reaches a new high watermark for Melbourne’s most prestigious postcode. This is one such property; the Penthouse at Palais has set a new benchmark for luxury living in Australia.”
Robert Mills agreed, telling WILLIAMS MEDIA, "This apartment is rarefied because the land, the resources and the design skill required to create this rare residence is a finite resource."
Source: Kay & BurtonUnfolding across two levels atop Palais Toorak, a boutique collection of just seven residences, The Penthouse speaks a global design language. Melding a New York sensibility with a distinctly French accent, it has flourishes that speak to the past while remaining thoroughly grounded in the present. The interior inspiration took seed, Parr says, in the aesthetic of classic Parisian hotels of the 1930s, “specifically, the Plaza Athenee,” he reveals, “formal, yet luxurious.” That seed sprouted to encompass something greater, budding into an exquisite expression of luxury all of its own.
“Taking cues from the French style façade, the interiors are a contemporary take on a traditional Parisian apartment, hence the name Palais,” Parr told WILLIAMS MEDIA. “A truly bespoke Penthouse apartment - nothing is standard, all custom.”
“Some elements period, some elements contemporary and others Avant Garde,” is Parr’s take on the influences that inform the interior. Stone and silk adorn the walls of the entrance, while the living areas feature inbuilt bespoke cabinetry crafted from patinated brass and timber. Elsewhere, timber veneer brings a sense of richness and warmth, and faceted glass is a nod to Art Deco.
Source: Kay & BurtonBut luxury is nothing without a sense of purpose. Beauty cannot exist in isolation from function, hence the spaces are conceived with as much thought as the exquisite details within them. Three bedrooms, each with private ensuite, sit alongside formal and informal living spaces, study and a gourmet kitchen. A private lobby with lift access enhances the seclusion one expects from penthouse living, while an on-site concierge is available to residents of The Penthouse. Every element is considered, right down to the way Mills ensured natural light floods in from the wrap-around roof terrace. His approach to making the outdoors an extension of the inside plays to a quintessentially Australian lifestyle, yet there is no mistaking that this property would be equally fitting on the Avenue Montaigne or overlooking Fifth Avenue.
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From the terrace, where a private plunge pool glitters in the sunlight, the vista takes in the neighbouring rooftops and city skyline. Melbourne’s European sensibility and creative energy is enhanced by an ease and openness that is unmistakably Australian.
Easton, Mills, Parr and Bangay set out to craft the ultimate expression of Melbourne luxury. They have delivered on that promise with a residential opportunity like no other.
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