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Baroque star

ubbed ‘neo baroque’ by its architect and owner Billy Kavellaris, this colourful contemporary house is at odds with its many genteel Victorian neighbours in affluent Melbourne suburb Toorak. ‘The idea of designing your own house is something most architects dream of. It was certainly in my head even as a teenager,’ says Kavellaris, who lives here with his wife Rosalba and their two daughters Jorja and Alexia (hence the

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