Piccolo House

18/06/2026

The yoga studio at Piccolo House - 18 Barry St, Kew was placed with care.

Oriented to face the garden, filled with soft natural light and resolved in the same material language as the residences above, it is a room designed for arrival as much as practice. A place where the transition from outside to inside is handled gently, where the day can begin without urgency.

For those who practise, it removes the conversation about whether you'll make it to a class. It is already there, a floor below, accessible before the street wakes.

But it belongs to a wider wellness picture. The bathhouse, with its sauna and cold plunge, follows a sequence inspired by European thermal bathing and Japanese wellness traditions. The gym looks directly onto greenery. The communal dining room extends social life naturally beyond the private residence.

Wellness at Barry Street is not a list of inclusions. It is a considered framework for daily life, one that asks, from the very beginning, how a home might support the person living in it.

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16/06/2026

Kew doesn't announce itself. It simply holds together, in the way that only well-established neighbourhoods can.

The streets here carry memory. Grand Edwardian homes sit deep behind established gardens. The Yarra winds below. The park, Yarra Bend, vast and unhurried, is part of daily life for those who already live here. It is the kind of place where a Saturday morning walk becomes a ritual, and where the café at Kew Junction has a table that feels, after a few months, like yours.

Piccolo House - 18 Barry St, Kew was selected because the neighbourhood already had that quality. The community already existed. The architecture arrived to complement it.

"It has to feel right," says Michael Piccolo. "I imagine the residents walking the neighbourhood. If I'm not swept away by it, our residents won't be either."

For those who choose to make their home here, Kew offers something increasingly rare: depth, generosity and the quiet assurance of a place that has been this way for a long time.

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 Homes where people love to live. Piccolo House is renowned for crafting architectural developments that balance innovation, beauty and liveability. Each Piccolo House is a reflection of its location, designed in pa...

05/06/2026

At Piccolo House, trust is built long before a resident moves in.

For Barnaby, it began before he even visited the display suite. Having already lived in a Piccolo development, Fitzroy House, he arrived at 385 Gore Street, Fitzroy, already knowing what distinguished the experience. "We bought in Piccolo before. We love that apartment, the level of quality," he says.

What drew him back was simpler than most would expect. Not the brochures, not the renders, the delivery. "The product that is advertised is the product that's delivered and then some." For Barnaby, the apartment filled with natural light, scaled with the generosity of a house, and resolved in every detail. "It feels like a home, it feels like a house. It's those proportions."

For those considering buying off the plan, his experience is a reminder that the Piccolo Promise is not a marketing claim. It is a track record. And at Barry Street, it continues.

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04/06/2026

Kew occupies a particular place in Melbourne's inner east, established, unhurried and increasingly hard to enter. But for those arriving at Piccolo House - 18 Barry St, Kew, that's rather the point.

For younger buyers, the address surprises. It's 15 minutes from the CBD by car. Walking distance to the cafés, restaurants and boutiques of Kew Junction. Close to the Yarra Trail and Yarra Bend Park, where mornings are measured in kilometres rather than minutes. Within the Studley Park school catchment for Kew High School, and a short drive from Xavier College, Genazzano FCJ, Trinity Grammar and Ruyton Girls' School.

Equally, it's the kind of neighbourhood where the streets feel wide and the trees feel old, where afternoons slow down naturally and evenings return to something quieter.

Barry Street itself is tree-lined, predominantly residential and held tightly by those who already live there. For first-time buyers looking beyond the inner north, and for families considering their next home, Kew offers a different kind of value: space, history and the permanence of a well-chosen address.

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29/05/2026

Residence 2.06 is designed for the way you actually live.

Positioned on the top floor of Piccolo House -18 Barry St, Kew, this north-facing three-bedroom home looks out across the landscaped Meadow, morning light filling every room, the tree canopy of Studley Park beyond. It is the kind of outlook that changes how a day begins.

The kitchen is appointed with the latest Gaggenau Expressive Series, travertine benchtops and splashbacks carrying the material palette through with quiet confidence. A full butler's pantry sits behind a sliding door, holding everything the kitchen needs, and nothing the living room should see.

The north-facing master bedroom opens directly onto the terrace. Custom wardrobes, soft finishes and considered proportions make it a room that genuinely restores.

Full-size laundry, private storage and two car spaces complete a home that has thought of everything, so you don't have to.

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22/05/2026

It begins with a promise.

A commitment to listen with intent, to design with purpose, and to deliver with absolute precision. A promise shaped by integrity, experience, and a deeply held belief that every home should endure, not only in quality, but in feeling.

At Piccolo House - 18 Barry St, Kew, that promise finds its most beautiful expression.

A rare corner site, gently embraced by a canopy of established trees, offers something quietly extraordinary, a sense of belonging from the very first encounter. This is a home conceived not from form alone, but from instinct. An understanding of place, of light, of life as it is meant to be lived.

From this foundation, every detail is carefully resolved. Materials are chosen for their longevity. Spaces are shaped with clarity and restraint. Craftsmanship is executed with an unwavering devotion to excellence.

The result is a home that feels deeply considered long before it is complete - effortless, enduring, and entirely assured.

This is the essence of a Piccolo House address.

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21/05/2026

Set on the second floor of Piccolo House - 18 Barry St, Kew, Residence 2.16 is the rare kind of home that renders the word 'apartment' entirely inadequate.

Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a den and a private landscaped terrace, shaped by Hecker Guthrie & Woods Bagot to offer the generosity of a great house and the ease of a life well-considered.

The kitchen is appointed with the latest Gaggenau Expressive Series, anchored by a butler's pantry that holds everything it needs and nothing the dining room should see. The living room settles around a Silver Travertine ethanol fireplace, warm, sculptural and quietly commanding.

The primary ensuite is a room unto itself. Heated floors, a freestanding Apaiser bath, Brodware tapware in brushed nickel and a double travertine vanity, designed not for display, but for the unhurried rhythm of every morning.

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15/05/2026

A garden that belongs to every residence.

At Piccolo House - 18 Barry St, Kew, the garden is not an afterthought. It is a presence. A living, breathing extension of the architecture itself, designed to be inhabited as fully as the rooms within.

Drawing on the natural character of Yarra Bend, Brett Robinson of Acre has shaped a landscape that wraps the building in layers of texture, shade and quiet beauty. At its heart, a generous communal garden becomes a shared sanctuary, a place of stillness and connection, designed not merely to be admired from a distance, but to be lived within.

Here, the boundary between inside and out dissolves. The canopy deepens with the seasons. The garden matures, as all enduring things do, slowly, gracefully, and with great intention.

Watch the film to discover the vision behind the landscape at Piccolo House - 18 Barry St, Kew.

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14/05/2026

There is no better measure of a home than the people who choose to live in it.

In our latest film, Sue shares what it means to call Piccolo House - 385 Gore St, Fitzroy home, the thoughtful design that reveals itself slowly, the generous spaces that breathe with everyday life, and the quiet comfort that only comes when a home has been truly well considered.

Hers is a perspective that no render or floor plan can offer. It is the lived experience of a residence where every detail was placed with purpose and where that care is felt, not just seen.

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08/05/2026

A home that extends beyond the residence itself.

The private guest suite redefines how residents think about hosting - a fully equipped, hotel-style room available to book, designed for overnight guests and finished to the same standard of care found throughout Piccolo House.

By thoughtfully relocating guest accommodation beyond the walls of each home, residents are free to shape their own space without compromise - every room considered on its own terms, every square metre lived in fully, while those who matter most are always welcome.

First realised at Piccolo House - 385 Gore St, Fitzroy, this approach has become a defining element of the Piccolo experience - a reflection of how each detail is carefully resolved to support both everyday living and moments of gathering.

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Piccolo House creates homes that are deeply considered and of exceptional quality.
 Homes where people love to live. Piccolo House is renowned for crafting architectural developments that balance innovation, beauty and liveability. Each Piccolo House is a reflection of its location, designed in pa...