The final touches to Victorian Italianate Perfection
This family house is grand and had been renovated to a very high standard. With a desire to transform a little used space into a cellar and entertaining area, we were brought in to advise on the restraints that the local listing might demand, to provide a design to accommodate those parameters, and lay the […]
Victorian Italianate (1850-1880)
The Victorian Italianate style was copied from the British who had borrowed it from the grand country houses of the Italian Renaissance. The houses have a highly decorative facade with classical ornamentation, representative of the then Italian modes of building and design. Australia, relatively remote and isolated was not as heavily influenced by the Italianate phase […]