What would this room be like in the 19th century? It’s a question Annie Kelly asked herself while creating her office in her inner-city terrace. “I had an idea in my mind that I wanted to bring to life,” this writer and interior decorator tells me as we stand in the room, with its views over gum trees and the red terracotta tiled roofs that signify where we are almost more than any other architectural vernacular: Sydney.
Downstairs her husband, photographer Tim Street-Porter, is seated at the dining room table, checking his emails. “When we are in Los Angeles, his office is as
