Jeff Provan Corbusier-inspired Toorak home remains for sale
Jeff Provan's custom-built mid-1990s home at 119 Canterbury Road, Toorak - with striking rooftop light-filled half cylindrical studio - was passed in on the vendor’s bid of $2.75 million at auction last month.
It came with a $3.095 million post-auction asking price through Marcus Chiminello of Marshall White.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home was designed by vendor, property designer and developer Jeff Provan with a copper cylinder on the roof. The 199 square metre block cost $340,000 in 1995.
Jeff Provan, of Melbourne design and architecture company Neometro, set himself the task of creating a building that met all the elements of the state's then new Good Design Guide code for houses on small allotments.
He created what he modestly called a box with the ground floor dedicated to living areas, the second is for sleeping and the third is a study or studio.
Provan began the process using Le Corbusier's "modular scale", developed by the Swiss 20th-century architect based on the proportions of a man.
Title Tattle recalls Provan's Japanese wife, Mariko wanted Victorian proportions in the house while he preferred the minimal Japanese aesthetic.
In 2007 Provan estimated his house would cost about $1 million to replicate, and require a year of planning and a year for building.
Marketed as showcasing Neometro's trademark pre-eminent design, Marcus Chiminello said scrupulous attention to detail was evident throughout with a blend of stone, timber and natural renders.
"A timeless rarity," he said.
