Harry Seidler, the great disruptor of modern Australian architecture
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hat would Harry do? Since 1961, not a tap nor a tile in the home that internationally celebrated modern architect Harry Seidler designed for the Weinreich family was changed without his advice.
With its circular dining room and round table set with lime-green table mats and orange napkins under a massive skylight, the Weinreichs glass-fronted home in Sydney s east is frozen in the swinging 60s. I wanted light because we were in the darkness during the Holocaust, says Aneta Weinreich, now in her 90s. Nearly all of Aneta and Joseph Weinreich s families were killed by the Nazis in Poland.