{"id":17002,"date":"2025-07-23T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17002\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:06:08","slug":"a-david-hicks-designed-penthouse-in-south-yarra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17002\/","title":{"rendered":"A David Hicks-designed penthouse in South Yarra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 24, 2025 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-title\" data-testid=\"Modal-title\">Subscribe to gift this article<\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-giftDescription -d6475070fa5e1d14-noMaxWidth\" data-testid=\"Modal-description\">Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.<\/p>\n<p><a data-testid=\"Modal-subscribe-button\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.afr.com\/?promote_channel=HI_AGFT_GNL_GIFTCTA&amp;utm_source=ArticleGifting&amp;utm_medium=HouseInventory&amp;utm_campaign=General&amp;utm_content=GiftCTA\" class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"-d6475070fa5e1d14-subscribeSubtext\">Already a subscriber? Login<\/p>\n<p>David Hicks remembers the first home he designed fondly: his own, in the gritty-chic Melbourne suburb of Prahran in the late 1990s. A rectangular white box with a glossy black floor, the tiny flat was \u201cjust big enough\u201d for him and a part-time staffer to establish what is today one of Australia\u2019s most esteemed interior design studios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy assistant would answer the phone, on a fixed line of course, and cover the mouthpiece with a hand while whispering the name of the person calling,\u201d he laughs at the memory. \u201cIf I nodded, they\u2019d say in a rather posh voice, \u2018Hold please, putting you through now.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 24, 2025 \u2013 5.00am Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-17002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}