SETTING SAIL
o some degree all house purchases are the result of a moment but this acquisition had more than most. When architect Conrad Johnston, director of Fox Johnston, stumbled on this house in Balmain he knew nothing of its pedigree but had an inkling of something great despite the rather cottagey overlay of plasterboard and the country-style kitchen and bathrooms. “No one else showed up at the auction. I think the south-facing aspect, the poor condition of
