A quirky Great Gatsby-style Melbourne apartment that could easily rival a Baz Luhrmann film set’s glamour and luxury is for sale with a $7.25m-$7.975m price guide.
The two-bedroom home at Level 15, 99 Spring St, is full of big-name designer features and historic curiosities ranging from handmade Roberto Cavalli wallpaper to a circa-1932 Rolls Royce handle fitted onto the kitchen’s concealed 100-bottle Vintec wine fridge.
Built in the 1970s, 99 Spring St was one of Melbourne’s first high-rise residential complexes.
Nicknamed the “tower of power”, former residents include Australia’s first billionaire Robert Holmes à Court, media tycoon Kerry Packer, music producer Bill Armstrong, businessman and philanthropist Sir Ian Potter, restaurateur Branco Tocigl and retail king Norman Rockman.
Abercrombys’ Michael King described Level 15’s melange of art deco, mid-century, Parisian and New York influences as “real estate art”.
“When I first walked it, I thought it was a film, it looks like something out of The Great Gatsby or a Baz Luhrmann film,” he said.
“It’s maximalism at its best, it’s the antithesis of modern day apartments with wall-to-wall beige.”
Mr King said the owner bought an apartment in the building about a decade ago and then acquired its neighbour before transforming them into the one spectacular abode measuring 366sq m.
“Basically they gutted it and completely renovated it,” he said.
The private lift has a 1930s-era call button reclaimed from the Los Angeles Stock Exchange, while the private lobby boasts ceiling tiles and cladding reminiscent of those at New York’s Chrysler Building.
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