Stephen Nicholls, Property Journalist
First published 8 Mar 2024, 5:00am
The late event architect and stylist Philip Carr poses for a photo at his home in Woollahra in 2017. Picture: Joel Carrett
The late celebrity event planner Philip Carr shared wise words with the Daily Telegraph’s Sydney Confidential column a decade ago, saying: “Great style does not have to be expensive — it’s all about originality and the unexpected.”
Carr, who has sadly passed away at the age of 46 from cancer, also had a good understanding of Sydney property, choosing a well-located and decent-sized 218sqm apartment at 7/339-341 Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra with north-easterly views over the harbour, to Bellevue Hill and beyond.
“He did a timeless, high-tech renovation about 20 years ago, with a marble kitchen and Sub-Zero fridges and Wolf oven, and beautiful marble bathrooms,” says Richardson & Wrench Double Bay’s James Dunn, who has a $4.1m guide for a March 26 auction.
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7/339-341 Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra. NSW Real Estate.
7/339-341 Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra. NSW Real Estate.
Dunn expects the three-bedroom, two-bathroom with double garage to be popular with downsizers, young professionals, people wanting a city bolthole and investors.
Carr was the go-to for Sydney’s A-list, orchestrating chicken heiress Jessica Ingham’s wedding to the colourful businessman Alex Macris in 2013 and entrepreuer Roxy Jacenko and Oliver Curtis’s nuptials in 2012.
But the job came with a range of challenges — especially some of the lavish weddings he organised.
He told the Telegraph in 2014 that a spoilt bride who insisted on a white theme threw a fit because, at the last minute, she demanded confetti and it was coloured rather than white.
7/339-341 Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra. NSW Real Estate.
7/339-341 Edgecliff Rd, Woollahra. NSW Real Estate.
And one western suburbs family had members of the Comancheros at their wedding.
Interestingly, he said his clients from the west had bigger budgets, describing them as “the new A-list”.
“Some of my Greek, Italian and Lebanese brides, who come from a culture where family is everything, have no problem renting the latest Rolls Royce Phantom for a wedding car,” he said.
“But if you go to the who’s who of the east, they cry, ‘I’m not spending that money, give me something for $200 or a bus’.”
The apartment is still decked out with Carr’s furniture and artwork, some of which will go to relatives in South Africa where he was born with the rest sold off at auction houses.
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