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Modernist Dream

When WOWOWA Director Monique Woodward says she’d live in client Ros Willett’s St Kilda “Modo Pento” (modernist penthouse) in a heartbeat it’s clear she means it. Even before her team transformed the interior with help from builder Peter Sak and Kyneton joiners Evolve Interiors, Monique was blown away by the scale, comfort and detailing of the elevated two-storey 70s apartment with wrap-around roof terrace overlooking St Kilda.

“You walk in initially and think, ‘What could this house possibly need?’ because it’s this magic and very spacious four-bedroom apartment with a beautiful library and living room and dining room and separate kitchen and generous hallway and a whole other wing for the bedrooms,” Monique recalls. “It was already a beautiful apartment with textured glass sliding windows and peacock dimple glass and fine ornamentation.

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