What uniquely Australian characteristics shape our aesthetic culture? The question sounds daft when directed across Zoom to a couple vacationing in the blue-sky beauty of the Greek Isles. But as Lidija and Michael Karakolis beam in from Mykonos for a three-way speak with their daughter Jessie, who joins from her balcony vantage in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, and designers Mardi Doherty and Phoebe Lipscombe, who dial-in from the Melbourne home they designed for the family, the answer apparent is “worldly”.
But not in that done-everything sense of jaded
