Fashionista philanthropist Rozalia Alpert lists garden apartment in 1885 Potts Point mansion
The fashionista philanthropist Rozalia Alpert has listed her Tarana, Potts Point, ballroom garden apartment with $5 million plus hopes. It is set on Wylde Street, high above the sandstone cutting overlooking Woolloomooloo Bay.
It’s a two-bedroom, two bathroom abode in the restored 1885 Victorian-Italianate-style mansion turned into a triplex through its 2003 restoration by the developer Jorge Fernandez.
Alpert founded Cara & Co, which has stores in Sydney and Moscow. Billed as neither a boutique nor a department store, Cara & Co is a concept store combining cutting-edge fashion, art, food and music.
The apartment has been listed by Jason Boon and Geoff Cox from Richardson & Wrench Elizabeth Bay in conjunction with Richard Shalhoub at McGrath Estate Agents.
The apartment comes with 258 square metres of internal space plus a 160-square-metre garden.
The middle apartment with 236 sq m internal and a 275 sq m garden and terracing sold for $4.6 million last year.
The retired stockbroker Chris Trumbull and his wife, Paddy, sold their Tarana apartment in 2010. The top two floor apartment fetched $6.2 million when bought by the Gardiner publishing rural family. It was 326 sq m internally plus 182 sq m of balcony/terrace space.
The mansion, designed by architect Edward Harman Buchanan, was built for Arthur McQuade, whose family also owned the adjacent sandstone mansion, Bomera. In 1907, a third storey was added to the residence and the original billiards room was extended into a ballroom.
