{"id":28795,"date":"2020-11-04T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=28795"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:15:46","slug":"how-this-prahran-factory-became-a-melbourne-couples-dream-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/how-this-prahran-factory-became-a-melbourne-couples-dream-house\/","title":{"rendered":"How this Prahran factory became a Melbourne couple\u2019s dream house"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Behind this bland facade art, a luxurious lifestyle is on offer. Photo: Tom Blachford<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the order of importance, the amazing artworks came first. This meant that for a Melbourne couple who are impassioned collectors and major gallery officials, the search for the right house to display their pieces was long and ultimately disappointing.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Andrew Penn and Kallie Blauhorn capitulated on finding a conventional residence and instead hunted down a Prahran factory shell that with some modification could work for their two-fold brief.<\/p>\n

Some modification!<\/p>\n

After Techne Architecture and Interior Design had fitted out the ground floor as a gallery and pushed above the roof of the early 1900s red-brick building to put in deluxe domestic accommodation, they certainly had themselves \u201ca very special project that is not your everyday thing,\u201d according to Techne director Nick Travers.<\/p>\n

From the pavement, Prahran House remains ordinary and reticent, or what Travers calls \u201ca relatively prosaic structure with no ornamentation or decoration\u201d.<\/p>\n

The sign over the roller door that says \u201cHolt and Sinn Industries Pty\u201d might suggest the place still operates as a textile mill. But that\u2019s an artful ruse. Taking the names of two past and different era owners from the title search register, Travers says \u201cwe fabricated a fake business name\u201d.<\/p>\n

It was a playful attempt to \u201cperpetuate a myth of what\u2019s going on inside and to maintain privacy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Inside is \u201ca structure within a structure\u201d that has made several contiguous but mutating gallery spaces, which kept exposed sections of the brickwork while laying across them \u201cfloated hanging surfaces\u201d.<\/p>\n

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