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2019 Gallery

Winner: Best Hotel Design

multiplicity for drifthouse

96&98 gipps street
port fairy, Victoria

Photography: martina gemmola

drifthouse is a boutique, now 6 suite small hotel located in the seaside town of port fairy run by john watkinson and colleen guiney

stage one is award winning in terms of heritage and tourism criteria

stage two furthers their aspirations to make food and drink pivotal to the experience

multiplicity.com.au

Jury Citation

A small boutique hotel in Victoria’s Port Fairy, Drift House’s design impressed the jurors with its intimacy, its emphasis on pared-down, natural materials and its striking sense of place. Encompassing a double-storey Victorian bluestone house, an adjacent single-storey Edwardian home, and a newly built garden pavilion and reception centre, the project uses reclaimed wood and stone from a local quarry to create a subtle sense of luxury that also reflects the town’s hardscrabble history. Communal spaces are cleverly designed to be adaptable, transforming from dining room to lounge area to event space. These spaces invite a sense of home and comradery that’s rare in any hotel setting, encouraging guests to intermingle or retreat to the secluded privacy of their rooms as they see fit. This was one of the outstanding regional projects we saw this year, and we hope its marked ambition is a harbinger of things to come from Australia’s smaller communities.
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
Photography: martina gemmola
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