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PRESS RELEASE 2010
Interior Designer and Stylist Rachael Leslie was inspired to name her newly constructed and impeccably styled country retreat after a great Australian photographer.
Zahalka House, hidden in a delicious stretch of Daylesford countryside, was named in homage to Sydney-based photographer ANNE ZAHALKA, whose Iconic work features throughout Australia's major galleries.
Leslie’s co-stylist Jasmine Salomon was captivated by Zahalka’s imagery after viewing her major retrospective exhibition which toured nationally in 2008. She realised she had stumbled upon a namesake for the art conscious and eccentric space she was assisting Leslie to create, and the name stuck.
Leslie's hand collected interior pieces and carefully considered approach to detail has resulted in the creation of a home that is warm, inspiring and offers guests the sense of magic one can only experience when staying at a lived in, culturally aware environment. This is the kind of pad you’d retreat to when creative block sets in and you needed an oasis that provided New Yorker mags to distract you or upmarket cooking and art books to inspire you. It is the home you always wished you owned, the sense of balance you wished you could create, with that lived- in feeling where everything just works. And it’s that sense of home that is so often commented upon by visitors.
By late 2008, when Zahalka house was truly established and beginning to garner a name in a town where the stakes in stylish accommodation are high, Leslie and Salomon attended Anne Zahalka’s private gallery showing at Arc 1. They had the opportunity to talk with the artist about her work, and also about the property named in her honour and she was, well, honoured!
A weekend at the retreat was offered to Zahalka to lend weight to the connection between her name and this space. The described experience, of a trip to beautiful countryside with long drawn baths in the evening and crisp walks into the Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens in the morning, did not disappoint Zahalka. But mostly, she was impressed by the vision of this home, and by the way the slow burn approach to layout, style, function and art was so effortlessly combined.
As the owner of her own fabulously eclectic bed and breakfast Australia Street Guest House in Sydney, Anne Zahalka knew good style and functionality when she hit upon the Daylesford retreat. Zahalka, Leslie and Salomon are now linked in more ways than just a name, and their friendship based on art and good times continues to bloom. Leslie has since worked with Zahalka on her latest short films and a gift to the house from the artist to the artists- the haunting print 'Kudu Hunter, 2006' is now featured at Zahalka House.
Zahalka House, hidden in a delicious stretch of Daylesford countryside, was named in homage to Sydney-based photographer ANNE ZAHALKA, whose Iconic work features throughout Australia's major galleries.
Leslie’s co-stylist Jasmine Salomon was captivated by Zahalka’s imagery after viewing her major retrospective exhibition which toured nationally in 2008. She realised she had stumbled upon a namesake for the art conscious and eccentric space she was assisting Leslie to create, and the name stuck.
Leslie's hand collected interior pieces and carefully considered approach to detail has resulted in the creation of a home that is warm, inspiring and offers guests the sense of magic one can only experience when staying at a lived in, culturally aware environment. This is the kind of pad you’d retreat to when creative block sets in and you needed an oasis that provided New Yorker mags to distract you or upmarket cooking and art books to inspire you. It is the home you always wished you owned, the sense of balance you wished you could create, with that lived- in feeling where everything just works. And it’s that sense of home that is so often commented upon by visitors.
By late 2008, when Zahalka house was truly established and beginning to garner a name in a town where the stakes in stylish accommodation are high, Leslie and Salomon attended Anne Zahalka’s private gallery showing at Arc 1. They had the opportunity to talk with the artist about her work, and also about the property named in her honour and she was, well, honoured!
A weekend at the retreat was offered to Zahalka to lend weight to the connection between her name and this space. The described experience, of a trip to beautiful countryside with long drawn baths in the evening and crisp walks into the Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens in the morning, did not disappoint Zahalka. But mostly, she was impressed by the vision of this home, and by the way the slow burn approach to layout, style, function and art was so effortlessly combined.
As the owner of her own fabulously eclectic bed and breakfast Australia Street Guest House in Sydney, Anne Zahalka knew good style and functionality when she hit upon the Daylesford retreat. Zahalka, Leslie and Salomon are now linked in more ways than just a name, and their friendship based on art and good times continues to bloom. Leslie has since worked with Zahalka on her latest short films and a gift to the house from the artist to the artists- the haunting print 'Kudu Hunter, 2006' is now featured at Zahalka House.
Anne Zahalka is represented by ARC ONE Gallery in Melbourne https://www.portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/hall-of-mirrors-2007 https://zahalkaworld.com.au/wild-life-06/ |
We acknowledge and pay respect to the Djaara People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional custodians of the land on which Zahalka House operates and recognise their continuous connection to culture, community and Country