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“Maybanke Anderson was significant in Australia’shistory because she was a suffragette, and wasresponsible for bringing the [women’s right to] voteto Australia. She started a preparatory school forwomen to enter Sydney University and she also wasinstrumental in raising the age of consent for girls,from 12 to 16.She was an incredibly powerful woman of her time.Maybanke was a divorcee. Her divorce was one of1500 that went through all at the same time, becauseshe was also instrumental in getting the divorceprovisions into law.And then, of course, she couldn’t own the house. Herex-husband owned the house. So her brother, NormanSelfe had to recover the title deed for this house, backfor Maybanke. And then she went on to create a holdof kindergarten schools and Maybanke School...”- Stuart King, Owner of Maybankeon Maybanke Anderson, Australian Suffragette
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Historical photographs, Michael Nicholson, Rose Repetti
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View of Maybanke from Wharf Road with original front and side facades restored from it's unsympathetic 1930's conversion. The bay windows, balconies, chimneys, copper downpipes and dormer window in a mansard roof, and gothic revival stone trims, mounts and detailing were reinstated.
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Michael Nicholson
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View of the harbour facade, garden and pool
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The original stone foundation wall is a feature of the dining room and kitchen. The exposed sandstone has around eight ex-convict signature 'sparrow picking' styles inscribed from when the original structure was built in the 1870's. There was a few stonemason's around Sydney at that time so it was common to use this technique as a way of signing each block.
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MIchael Nicholson
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The kitchen splashback has mirror faced cabinets to increase the sense of space
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Michael Nicholson
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“The architecture is very robust and direct. It draws its strength from simplicity and the materials the house is built from. We wanted to respond to that character, that strength, and create a softness and tactility that provides a space for the people living there. There is a lot of warmth, glow, and texture, from timber and luscious marbles. They are counter-posed against the concrete walls, the concrete floors and stainless steel benchtops.”- Kerry Fyfe, Interior Architect for Maybanke
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MIchael Nicholson
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The originial Mansard roof was reconstructed and now forms a series of folded planes in the ceiling of the studio space.
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Michael Nicholson
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“Every tread is hand crafted so the staircase almost feels like a piece of jewellery inserted into the space” - Jim Koopman, Design Director for Maybanke
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Michael Nicholson
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"When you walked in the front door, you entered a space that felt like a rabbit warren with a narrow contorted stairwell - there was no sense of arrival that grand stairs of those old houses often had. As we had to connect five storeys… the stair became the most important interior gesture of the house. It was designed to transform the stairwell into a vertical volume, day lit by a skylight and a glazed lift shaft that also provides wonderful glimpses of Sydney Harbour as you move through the stair." - Jim KoopmanDesign Director for Maybanke
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Michael Nicholson
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Detail of the tensioned steel screen that drops down besides the length of the stairs as balustrading across three levels.
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Rose Repetti
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The tensioned steel screen, while visually it is incredibly light, it is extremely heavy and is supported by a substantial structural frame.
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Rose Repetti
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French doors opening out to the original, street-facing guest room balcony
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Rose Repetti
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Timber batten wall in the dining room and kitchen
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Rose Repetti
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The artists studio opens out to the deck and garden, with views of Snails Bay in Sydney Harbour.
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Michael Nicholson
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Naomi Simon, owner of Maybanke, is an Australian Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker, LinkedIn influencer and Shark on Shark Tank TV show. She enjoys painting in her Artist Studio.
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Michael Nicholson
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