Absolutely all offers by 5pm Wednesday 10 April 2013. (Seller reserves the right to sell prior). WILL BE SOLD.
Situated only metres from the shoreline in a highly sought after City Beach location is this modest yet highly recognisable home from the Studio of Iwan Iwanoff. Commissioned by J. W. Booth in the late 1960's this home is one of the later members of a family of Iwanoff homes designed and built in City Beach from the mid 50's through to the late 1970's. Favoured as a location by Iwanoff and his modern contemporaries, City Beach with its 1961 Commonwealth Games Village and associated Commonwealth Athletics Stadium at Perry Lakes Floreat was a symbol of the modern era and a hot bed for mid century design.
Characterised by a streamlined flat roofed faade with wall to ceiling glass windows and trade mark breeze ways to naturally ventilate with the aid of the coastal environment, this home was an early example of Iwanoff's concrete block construction and in design terms, sits somewhere on the cusp of his mid century modern designs and later foray into the brutalist movement. Whilst there are a number of Iwanoff homes in the suburb, most of the earlier examples of his work in City Beach no longer exist.
Starting its life as a 3 bed 2 bath home in 1970, Iwanoff was commissioned to do a sympathetic extension three years later in 1973 to create its current incarnation as a 5 x 3 with separate parents wing including retreat designed in an L shape formation around a timber decked pool area, the centrepiece of which is one of City Beach's classic Hollywood Hills-esque concrete pools from the era. The pool has been relined and is now surrounded by poured limestone paving and has a striking water feature at one end, cascading into the pool. Internally, the house is largely original, apart from a modernised stainless steel kitchen and bamboo flooring throughout. Situated on a huge perfectly level 947qm land holding, only 3 houses back from the front row and the shortest of strolls to the lapping shores of the City Beach foreshore. This is both a designer home and lifestyle location opportunity not to be missed.
Centrally located, as well as being an easy walk to the beach, the home is directly west of The Village shopping centre and only minutes stroll to both this and the highly sought after Kapinara Primary School around the corner.
Slightly modified on its exterior over the decades, the home comes complete with copies of the original plans which highlight how ever so simply the faade could be brought back to its mesmerising former glory. With potential to sell at only a little over block value, this is an outstanding opportunity for any one with even a passing interest in classic architecture to secure such an incredibly well located land holding and restore the home to its former glory so that it can reassume its rightful place in this city's intriguing and sought after catalogue of Iwan Iwanoff homes. Imagine living day in-day out in what is not just your home, but effectively a living, breathing work of art.
Absolutely all offers by 5pm Wednesday 10 April 2013. (Seller reserves the right to sell prior). WILL BE SOLD.
