Pettit + Sevitt home just as groovy in 21st century
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Ken Woolley's striking Modernist 1960s Pettit + Sevitt project home, built recently with 21st-century thinking, has been listed for October 8 McGrath auction with $1.18 million plus hopes.
The latest five-bedroom, two-bathroom Lowline house project by the veteran architect was built at the request of Val Sevitt, the widow of company co-founder Ron Sevitt.
Its design on the 960-square-metre block has been aimed at simplicity, timelessness and functionality taking the best of the past with current-day details.
It is three decades after the original building company closed its doors, and earlier this year the new-look Pettit + Sevitt was completed in the Sydney Hills district of Kellyville.
The house is built on a conventional concrete slab using brick veneer and features western red cedar windows and exposed wooden beams.
The original 1960s house design has been updated to meet modern building requirements.
It certainly incorporates a number of environmental features, including solar panels, reverse-cycle air-conditioning and in-ground rainwater tanks.
"It’s a new millennium version of a modernist cult classic," its McGrath listing agent Mark Vinogradov says.
"It enjoys a peaceful setting close to local shops and city bound transport with views to Castle Hill golf club.
"It has family functional architecture and premium quality additions," he notes.
Pettit + Sevitt relaunched in 2009 under the directorship of Ron Sevitt’s widow, Val Sevitt, and her children, Colin Sevitt and Carol Perry.
Ken Woolley who has had an ongoing association with the project home company, desgined the new prototype Lowline house.
Sevitt says the project produced a prototype that could form the basis of another project, possible a split-level design.
She says there has been client interest in having the Lowline built on vacant blocks elsewhere in Sydney, but clients had yet to secure suitable blocks.
At one stage Pettit + Sevitt was building 400 of Lowline houses a year with about 3,500 built in the 1960s and '70s.
