toast of the town

Architect and interior designer Kitty Lee first met her potential client Chew Lim at Chew’s house in suburban Sydney, where the scene spoke volumes. “Kitty could see boxes and boxes of wine everywhere,” says Chew, laughing. “So she knew immediately what was important to me.”

Chew had purchased the compact house – in Kingsford, close to Sydney Airport – 16 years earlier, around the same time that her daughter Phoebe was born. The red-brick bungalow had served Chew and Phoebe