Belle - September 2026

From Vogue to Belle: Our Sofia in a Potts Point Terrace Built for Anyone

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A Potts Point terrace that once operated as backpacker accommodation has been restored by Tom Mark Henry for boutique developer Kilcarra Group, first appearing in Vogue Living and now featured again in Belle. The home was always intended for resale, which meant the design team was working without a client to design around. "Any family can walk in and see themselves occupying the home," says Cushla McFadden, director of Tom Mark Henry, a genuinely difficult brief that leans on the building's own history rather than a fictional owner's taste.

Interior design: Tom Mark Henry, for Kilcarra Group. Photography: Pablo Veiga. Featured in Vogue Living and Belle.

Designing for no one in particular

The facade survived largely untouched, Victorian filigree ironwork holding its own on a street full of similarly historic buildings. Inside, original fireplaces and the terrace's traditional layout were retained upstairs, while a new rear wing was built behind the existing structure in Calacatta Rose marble, cast brass and silk. Two adjoining terraces on the same street, numbers 156 and 158, were restored at the same time by the same team, each taken in a completely different direction. Ours sits in number 158.

Keeping what mattered, rebuilding the rest

Our Sofia sofa sits in the front living space, upholstered in a soft blue linen, doing the quiet job good furniture should do in a home like this: not competing with the marble or the ironwork, just settling in and making the room feel lived-in rather than staged. That is the whole point of a home designed to suit no one in particular, every piece has to hold its own without demanding attention, so whoever eventually buys the house can bring their own life into it.

Sofia, in the front room

We are always drawn to projects where our furniture has to earn its place in a considered room rather than anchor it, and it is a genuine pleasure to see this one picked up again, first by Vogue Living, now by Belle. If you are working on a restoration of your own, or need a piece considered enough to sit quietly in a detailed room, come talk to us at our Sydney or Melbourne showroom.

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