Australian House & Garden

ART AND SOUL

Many architects worship minimalism and its simple, uncluttered aesthetic – Richard Archer included – but in his own home in inner-city Sydney, he has left it at the door. Within this urban hideaway, he celebrates maximalism to the… er… max, and is quite unapologetic about it. The always surprising results are an exuberant expression of his personality and all that he loves and values.

“I am most certainly no minimalist when it comes to my own style,” he says. “In fact,

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