Imbedded with a sense of theatrical drama, Monomeath brings a series of contrasting and saturated gestures together to create an animated home that reflects its owners. Technē Architecture and Interior Design reimagines a 1930s-era home to capture a certain character and spirit with nods to both midcentury principles and Palm Springs architecture.

In combining a connection to past and present, the Toorak home captures a playfulness in form and material expression as a means to acknowledge both its origins and its current custodians. Originally built and designed in a time of experimentation, the new reworking acts as an extension of that original founding, reinterpreted through a more contemporary lens.

Home to Technē Founding Director Nick Travers and his family, the design of Monomeath was led by Bianca Baldi, Associate and Senior Interior Designer at Technē. Throughout, in response to a love of an elevated materiality and references to old Hollywood glamour, a boldness is evidenced through new geometries and lighting together with statement furniture and artwork.

Technē combines familiar elements and a rational layout that opens the interior and creates flowing movement between the living areas, while also allowing for moments of intimate retreat. Through a play on scale and tone, moments of compression and release open and close the feeling of areas internally, while colour and contrasting elements take on a vital role of stirring interest and challenging expectations. Built by Offbite Projects, together with landscape design by Ayus Botanical, Monomeath House opens to the surrounding outdoor areas as further relief from the deeply layered interior, as a destination of its own.

Architect:TechneArchitecture

Interiors:TechneArchitecture

Styling:TechneArchitecture

Landscape:AyusBotanical

Photos:CaitlinMills