Polly Borland and John Hilcoat buy Grand Designs, MCM-inspired Suffolk Park home
They paid $645,000 for the 800 sqm block of land in 2017 in the Seacliffs rainforest estate developed by Jonathan Levy’s Unison Projects.
The couple lived in a caravan with their three children for almost a year while undertaking the project.
The Foxtel LifeStyle channel presenter Peter Maddison suggested it was “a uniquely Aussie version of a modernist building”.
Borland and Hilcoat, who resided in England until around 2011, are returning from Malibu, where in 2016 they paid around US$1.66 million (AU$2.32 million), for a contemporary designed home by the local architect Doug Rucker.
Borland won the 1994 John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award. In 2000 the National Portrait Gallery commissioned Borland to take a series of photographs, Australians, for an exhibition to celebrate that country's 200th anniversary.
Meanwhile on their return, Hilcoat, who directed the hit prohibition-era crime film Lawless starring Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf, has joined the creative collective agency Collider as a director.
He's collected every major advertising award over his long career, shooting commercials for the likes of Nike, Apple, Samsung and Coca-Cola.
