Your name: Fiona Winzar
What you do: Principal Fiona Winzar Architects
Your latest project: Bromby Street House will finally be built after four years of red tape. This super energy efficient urban villa will be the first of its kind in Victoria.
Who are three people that inspire/excite you:
1) My mother is amazing
2) My husband’s music and my children’s mischief
3) Stephen Holl
What is your favourite…
Car/bike/plane/boat model: My Taiwanese Vintage Bicycle and my legs for walking
Residential space: A Queensland verandah in a thunder storm
Commercial space: Hamer Hall Arts Centre Melbourne upgrade by ARM architects
Decorative product: Porter’s Paints
Functional product: cast iron camping frypan (but I don’t camp)
Handmade good: My ‘endless engagement’ ring by Karl Fritsch based in New Zealand
Mass-produced good: Bialetti stovetop coffee maker
meal: South Australian Prawns on the Barby (bbq)
restaurant: Mirka continental bistro St Kilda
drink: Pol Roger Champagne
bar: Siglo Melbourne
item in your studio: Old B & O Stereo
piece of technology: iPhone
historical figure: Antonio Gaudi
fictional character: Kermit The Frog
vice: Annick Goutal perfume
virtue: listening
What does the term ‘Design Hunter’ mean to you? Being in the moment with your environment – always looking and staying hungry. It’s not about chasing the latest things, but what you discover by chance and going back.
