When design studio Handelsmann + Khaw was tapped to breathe new life into a Georgian Revival house built on the brink of the Great Depression, in a prized pocket of harbourside Sydney, the firm chose to filter the architecture’s symmetry and Mediterranean strains through a French eye.
Which is not to suggest a fizz of Belle Époque chandeliers, qualifies designer Gillian Khaw of the interiors commission feeding from the office of Luigi Rosselli, the project architect first broached to finesse the building’s faded grandeur for a