BENDING REALITY
and grew up in a 19th century worker’s cottage on the top of a mountain in South Wales. In contrast, Penny Collins was raised in Sydney’s Mosman Bay in a home her architect father and mother had designed in the mid-70s. This iconic, inventive house was clad in fibreglass panels with interior walls of the upper floor lined in black felt while the lower bedroom level was starkly white. Furniture was cutting-edge Italian designs from Angelo Mangiarotti, Vico Magistretti and Alessandro Becchi. Turner laments that, “until the advent of [architect] Richard Rogers’ futuristic Inmos factory, which I saw every day on the school bus, 90 per cent of new builds in Wales were a
