Artist Michel Canetti is selling his Camberwell Victorian ‘Chesney’, calling it a house where ‘the house and the art speak the same language’.
Chanel and Louis Vuitton illustrator Michel Canetti has listed his Camberwell home as he prepares to return to Europe after two decades in Melbourne.
Canetti, whose 45-year career spans Argentina, France and Germany, has illustrated for global luxury houses including Chanel, Armani, Louis Vuitton and Guerlain, and has been included four times in the “200 Best Illustrators Worldwide”.
The circa-1886 Victorian building has an estimated price of $4 million to $4.4 million and has functioned as both a residence and a studio, with artwork on display throughout.
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Anchoring its Australian branch, the Camberwell property has also served as a working studio and private gallery for twenty years.
“Yes, many of my works have lived in this house,” Canetti said.
While much of his international career focused on illustration for advertisements and magazines, his years in Melbourne also produced larger canvas works that were exhibited in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne.
“For 45 years I worked internationally as an illustrator on paper, mainly for advertisements and magazines,” he says.
In Michel Canetti’s studio in his Camberwell home, the only room where he says ‘everything happens’.
Michel Canetti Camberwell’s dining space reflects his ‘classic’ taste, filled with antiques and traditional European pieces.
Herald Sun first visited Michel Canetti’s Camberwell home in 2015 and now returns as the artist prepares to move back to France. Photo: Janine Eastgate
“Those were smaller works, then I also painted on canvas during my stay in Australia and those larger works are also represented here.”
High ceilings of more than four meters in the lounge create what he describes as a classic atmosphere, enhanced by French antiques he brought with him when he moved twenty years ago.
“When I arrived 20 years ago, I brought a lot of my furniture from France,” he said.
“Some pieces I bought in Australia, but most are French.”
The lounge area of the Camberwell house has a fireplace with high ceilings, one of Michel Canetti’s favorite spaces for its ‘classic atmosphere’.
The circa 1886 Victorian ‘Chesney’ in Camberwell comes to market with a price estimate of between $4 and $4.4 million.
Despite changing artwork as new pieces were completed, he said the aesthetic has remained largely unchanged.
“I put in my furniture and my paintings and, to be honest, I haven’t changed much since then,” he said.
He confirmed that he will take almost everything with him when he returns to France.
A rare corner property of approximately 1,200 square meters in Camberwell, with Anthony Smith of Marshall White Boorondara calling land of this size ‘certainly rare’ in the Prospect Hill pocket.
Michel Canetti says he brought much of his furniture from France, giving the Camberwell house a distinctly European, classical sensibility.
Marshall White Boroondara agent Anthony Smith said the commercial backbone of the campaign was the rare area of approximately 1,200 square metres. corner management, a scale that is increasingly scarce in the tightly packed prestige streets and prime school zone of Camberwell.
“Landholdings of that size are rare… and this is a big block,” Mr Smith said.
“In and around Prospect Hill … you get larger allocations, but this block size is certainly rare.”
Works displayed in Michel Canetti’s Camberwell Victorian transform the house into a private gallery, shaped by decades of international career highlights.
The online notes highlight options for renovation and expansion, rebuilding or boutique development, subject to council approval.
The property will be auctioned on March 14.
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