Three Melbourne Penthouses For Sale
A look inside the pinnacle of Melbourne’s luxury apartment market.
By Terry Christodoulou
Tue, Jun 8, 2021 4:15pm
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True to form, Melbourne’s luxury penthouse market is awash with effortlessly appointed elegant abodes.
Here, we’ve collated three of the best on the market right now.
Level 59, Aspire Residences, 299 King Street, Melbourne
Arriving in timeless style is this full-floor 5-bedroom, 5-bathroom, 4 car garage residence. Located above Aspire Melbourne, the upper-most 14 levels are dedicated to some of the most luxurious apartment living on offer, with level 59 – listed here – offering the full floor.
Uninterrupted views of Flagstaff Gardens, Melbourne CBD, Port Phillip Bay and beyond are at hand, while the residence’s central location puts it at the fingertips of the best Melbourne has to offer.
Inside, cutting-edge contemporary style permeates the 639sqm apartment, which has been designed by acclaimed interior architect David Hicks. Here, the lift opens to the apartment’s private lobby and formal lounge, dining room, cocktail lounge, complete with a fireplace.
The open plan kitchen arrives with the butler’s pantry and includes top of the range Gaggenau appliances and fully integrated Sub-zero refrigeration.
Elsewhere the master bedroom offers views across Melbourne CBD and Port Phillip Bay and features expansive customisable robes as well as a master ensuite with custom curved bath and double vanity.
The luxurious penthouse is set for completion early 2023 with an asking price of $9,983,000; aspireresidences.com.au
The Penthouse, 7 Bowen Crescent, Melbourne
Located in a prestigious Gurner development that encompasses the city skyline arrives yet another David Hicks penthouse.
The spectacular in scale entrance foyer features dark stained parquetry floors that leads one through to the open plan living, dining and entertaining space surround by 270-degree full height glass affording sensational views.
From here, the living area extended to a mammoth private sun-terrace, perfect for entertaining.
The premium kitchen is a chef’s delight arriving in Carrara marble with Gaggenau and Liebherr appliances throughout.
A lavish main bedroom lands with a dressing room, marble ensuite alongside two additional bedrooms with coordinating ensuites and built-in robes.
Up the curved staircase, or via the private lift, one arrives at the 4th bedroom or retreat with a built-in robe.
Situated within walking distance to the Botanic Gardens, the Domain a, Albert Park and more, the home features a 4-basement car space and access to Albert Place’s hotel-style amenities.
The listing is with Marshall White’s Nicholas Hoo with a price guide of $7-$7.7 million; marshallwhite.com.au
Residence 6.01/409 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Positioned on the corner of Toorak Road West and St Kilda road this podium floor residence arrives with sweeping north facing views of the CBD, Botanic Gardens and Fawkner Park.
The oversized, 3-bedroom, 5-bathroom, 5-car parking podium Penthouse offers 530sqm of internal living plus a further 200sqm external. Arriving with soaring ceilings, the main living space is decorated with European oak timber flooring in a herringbone pattern and floor to ceiling windows to take in those expansive views.
Also here is the large, luxuriously appointed kitchen featuring stunning oak cabinetry, top-grade marble, Gaggenau and Sub Zero appliances and a Christopher Boots pendant light as a feature.
The bedroom wing is informed by a large master with marble ensuite and bathtub, walk-in robes, while two more large bedrooms with ensuites while a guest room rounds out the offering.
Residents of The Muse will have the ability to access hotel-style services and facilities including 24/7 concierge services, 5-star wellness centre including spa, retreat, gym, swimming pool and also a luxurious club lounge with private meeting room facilities.
The listing is managed by Daniel Cashen, with an asking price of $16,500,000; themusemelbourne.com.au
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Kit Braden, an executive at French beauty empire L’Occitane, has spent every winter for the past 13 years at the stone vacation home.
By CHAVA GOURARIE
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A historic Barbados estate with a 300-year-old villa and 11 acres overlooking the Caribbean Sea is now for sale with a guide price of $22.5 million.
The seller is Kit Braden, chairman of the U.K. branch of French beauty empire L’Occitane Group, whose family has spent every winter for the last 13 years at the island property, known as Fustic Estate.
“It’s very much a family house,” Braden said. “We love having a lot of people there. It’s a collection point to keep everyone together.”
The main villa dates to 1712, though it’s been reimagined and expanded substantially over the years.
It spans 13,000 square feet and features seven en suite bedrooms across three wings, as well as expansive verandas, stone courtyards and rows of louvered doors in gay Caribbean pastels.
In the 1970s, when the home was owned by Charles Graves—brother of British poet Robert Graves—it was reimagined by stage designer Oliver Messel, one of the foremost theater designers of the last century. Messel expanded the home, added a lagoon pool with a natural waterfall and other theatrical features, according to Braden.
“The whole place is a little bit magical,” he said.
The home sits about 350 feet above the water, and surrounded by lush gardens that slope towards the water.
“We look down through our garden—which is about 12 acres of tropical gardens and palm trees and wonderful old mahogany trees—onto the Caribbean,” Braden said.
He and his wife first saw the property on New Year’s Eve 2013, during a quick trip from where they were staying in Grenada.
The couple spent an hour walking the perimeter, some of it still untouched jungle, in the pouring rain.
“By the time we got back, I had fallen in love with it,” Braden said.
His wife, however, wasn’t so sure. But in Braden’s telling, a second visit in sunnier weather with two of their children brought her around.
“She had to be talked into that it was a jolly good idea; now she absolutely loves it,” he said.
When they bought the property, the edge that runs along the waterfront was a jungle, so they cleared the ridge and transformed it into gardens.
They also bought an additional sea-level parcel with two beach cottages, giving the property direct access to the water and the town below via a five-minute walk.
The property also has a 15-person staff, a reflecting pond, an outdoor pavilion suitable for yoga and a commercial grade kitchen that can serve more than 100 guests, according to a brochure from Knight Frank, which posted the listing in March. They did not provide further comment.
For Braden, the property is special because of its natural beauty, its proximity to the town of Saint Lucy and its history—which dates way way back to when the island of Barbados was first formed via tectonic activity.
“It was basically tectonic plates that collided about a million years ago so the seabed is the top of the hill,” Braden said. “We’re on coral rock.”
As a result, Fustic Estate includes an extensive network of caves that were likely used by the Arawaks, a Venezuelan fishing tribe that followed the fish to these islands about a thousand years ago.
“If the fish were good they’d camp here,” Braden said. “There’s evidence that they stayed there in those caves, they lived there in good winters.”
Now it’s someone else’s turn to live on the land shared by Arawaks, the plantation owners of 1712, Charles Graves and the Braden brood.
