Branching out
“THE KITCHEN HAS SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO STAND AROUND AND CHAT WHILE DINNER IS COOKING.” Carole Whiting, interior designer
Wandering around the block she’d bought on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, owner Kim Ellis stopped to pick up a chunk of iron-red rock. “It was unlike anything I’d ever seen,” she says. “The stone had a richness of colour and movement. You could make out the lava layers that had formed over years.” What Kim, the founder of Wild Luxury retreats, was looking at was a piece of late Permian to middle Triassic-era rock, revealed
