Australian House & Garden

Material whirl

Having spent the past 30 years bestowing her impeccable style on other people’s interiors, Barb Brownlow has turned her undeniable talent to her own home. Her delightful pied-a-terre in leafy inner-city Melbourne may be modest in size, but the artfully layered selection of fabrics, artworks and antiques packs a powerful punch and speaks volumes about the woman who lives here.

“My home has a distinctly English style,” she says. “I have been an avid collector of

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