The Rose Bay modernist home of bankrupt former mining executive IanStolyarand his wife Beth has sold on the quiet for $16.6 million as a knock-down rebuildto London-based expat foreign exchange dealer TonyCollick.
The waterfront property was designed as Lapin House in 1949 by the late architect NevilleGruzmanfor his auntMollieLapin, and long owned by former High Court judge Michael Kirby and his partner Johan vanVlotenafter they bought it in 1976 for $190,000 from lawyer Peter Murphy.
Mr Kirby and Mr vanVlotensold the residence to theStolyarfamily in late 2014 for $10.7 million,two years before MrStolyarwas declared bankrupt.
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