Belle

Glass act

Some things are meant to be. For interior designers and husbands Thomas Hamel and George Massar an auction of this penthouse in Sydney’s inner-west in mid-2021 occurred the same day as their marriage. So, of course, the wedding took precedence and they passed on what could have been a special opportunity. But fate intervened.

George revisited the listing after the couple had tied the knot and found the apartment was still under negotiation, so they threw their hat in the ring. After a long search, they had discovered this sanctuary in the sky, a pavilion with sheer walls of three-metre-high glass on all sides and nabbing the entire top level of

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