Belle

DRAWING THE LINE

Acemetery in northern Italy seems an unlikely source of inspiration for a Sydney harbourside home, especially one as dynamic and luminous as this. But its architect Daniel Boddam has drawn design cues from a monument to modernist architecture, Carlo Scarpa’s concrete tomb to Brionvega founder Giuseppe Brion. Daniel has even named his own sculptural creation, a masterwork in its own right, Villa Carlo, to celebrate his muse.

When he first visited the site in 2017 it was far from

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