One of the world’s most significant homes, ‘Wingadal’ in Sydney’s exclusive Point Piper is offered for sale.‘Wingadal’ is the largest waterfront estate off Australia’s premier residential address, encompassing 2676 sqm of land and 98-metres of harbour frontage with front row views of the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge.
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00:00There is an artwork that hangs in the foyer of
00:29John Simon's magnificent home, inscribed with the words his mother Joyce told him as
00:34a young man.
00:36Johnny in life think big, really, really big, and then double it again.
00:45And in Wingardale, her son went on to do just that.
00:50Acquiring the very best sight on the shores of Sydney Harbour in 1999, some 98 precious
00:57waterfront metres on the very point of Point Piper, with those famous icons laid out right
01:04before it, and dedicating the next eight years to creating a place to celebrate and serve
01:10his three great passions, family, friends and philanthropy.
01:22Just about everybody who knows Sydney knows Wingardale.
01:26It is a big presence on the city's landscape, for both its form and its functions.
01:32It's been dubbed one of Sydney's unofficial civic buildings for the role it has played
01:37in the city's charitable calendar, hosting countless glittering events for hundreds at
01:42a time under the breathtaking arc of 6,200 acoustically engineered rods on the ceiling
01:49of its famous entertainment floor, crafted to perfectly frame the harbour bridge.
01:56Every New Year's Eve, there is no finer room to be invited to in Sydney.
02:04But the genius and joy is for all that is seen and known of Wingardale, there is so
02:10much that is not.
02:11Indeed, even this film will leave much of the Simon family's faces unshown, out of respect
02:17for their privacy, and possibly that of a future custodian, but be in no doubt, this
02:24is one of the great residences of the world, in one of the great locations of the world,
02:30and its capacity to respond to the wishes of its people, be they public or private,
02:36is immeasurable.
02:49Wingardale, Point Piper, Sydney Harbour, Australia.