Drift House

Winner Best Hotel Design Designer Multiplicity Location Port Fairy, Victoria Jury comment — Drift House is a boutique hotel in Victoria’s Port Fairy whose design impressed the jurors with its intimacy, its emphasis on pared-down, natural materials and its striking sense of place. Encompassing a double-storeyed Victorian bluestone house, an adjacent single-storeyed 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, which 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 camaraderie that’s rare in any hotel setting, encouraging guests to intermingle or retreat to the secluded…

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Interior (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2019 / February 2020

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