Belle

Remote control

We all became accustomed to doing unlikely activities on Zoom during the pandemic but delivering a full renovation and furnishings via the video meeting app to a house on the other side of the world probably seemed a little implausible.

However for Justine Hugh-Jones and Katrina Mackintosh, principals of Sydney-based Hugh-Jones Mackintosh design studio, once they had adapted to the radically different way of working it was full steam ahead. Then when they were finally able to visit the house in San Francisco after the two-year project was completed it was all they had hoped for

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