Uncertainty over Carla Zampatti’s old home

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PHOTO: The future of Zampatti’s Woollahra home is yet to be deciced. John Feder/The Australian.

The $25m home of late fashion icon Carla Zampatti remains up in the air, ahead of the forthcoming first anniversary of her death.

There’s no sign that the former Woollahra home of the fashion designer Carla Zampatti is set for listing anytime soon, a year after the forthcoming first anniversary of her death.

The title of the four-bedroom 1928 Italianate-style abode remains in her name.

The house was bought in 1975 for $220,000 from the family of the textile industry director, Laurence Foster who had built it. Zampatti bought out husband politician, lawyer and diplomat John Spender’s third stake in 1982 at $233,000.

The late Carla Zampatti with her two daughters Bianca (l) and Allegra at her home in Woollahra, Sydney.

The family lived there until 1986 when they moved into Spender’s nearby inherited Georgian-style family home, Headingley House which Spender’s diplomat father, Sir Percy Spender, had bought from the Kater pastoralist family in 1949.

When the couple split, Zampatti moved back into the Edgecliff Rd battle-axe property and in 2009 updated its kitchen under the guidance of architect, Dino Raccanello. The interiors are otherwise 16th-century Italian Palladio in style, the venue of many fashion launches. Her love of design came from Italy.

The home is expected to fetch around $25m. Picture: John Feder/The Australian.

“Architecture in Italy is just magnificent – very minimalist but beautiful and solid,” she told Vogue Living in 2019.

It appears her daughters, the Darling Point-based Allegra and Bianca, who resides at Bronte, along with their Darling Point-based stepbrother Alexander Schuman, have yet to agree on the listing.

And, of course, with Australian Fashion Week, and then the federal election looming, there’s unlikely to be any rush to make any decision.

Zampatti had lived in the Woollahra home since 1986. Picture: Toby Zerna

There’s a chance it could be become the home for Allegra, the independent candidate for the seat of Wentworth.

Estate agent Georgia Cleary is understood to be advising the family on the future of the home with a $25 million estimated value, amid the Zampatti commercial property empire.

Interestingly there was a 2017 application to make the home into a strata duplex, which has yet to be pursued through NSW Land Registry Services.