SHE was a proud and elegantly groomed matriarch (during her 2012 world tour, Taylor Swift described her as “one of the most beautiful places I’ve been…”); perched gracefully over Cottesloe Beach, Indiana Tea House - in her hey-day - was considered a design triumph when its doors opened to an adoring Perth public back in 1996.
Based on the Centenary Pavilion which defined the site from 1929 to 1983, the iconic design was intended to be reminiscent of the