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An Enchanting Resort in Australia’s Southern Highlands

Kurt Soller

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When the London-based former Soho House design director Linda Boronkay first visited Osborn House, a 19th-century former guesthouse located in an Australian village halfway between Sydney and Canberra, she was instantly enchanted. Even in their overgrown state, she said, the gardens and surrounding forest held an atmosphere of Old World romance and discovery. “I intervened as little as possible,” she said about the process of turning the property into an intimate boutique resort. Fifteen unique suites were created in the main house, and seven cabins were scattered in the surrounding woods. When it came to the interiors, which include a game room and plant-filled spa, the designer sourced from a mix of European fabrics and Australian artisans, including the local ceramist Bruce Pryor, who crafted some of the lighting, and the Byron Bay-based artist Jai Vasicek, whose paintings and murals of muse-like female figures are found throughout the space. The result is Cotswolds manor meets Oz. “I want people to forget that they are in a hotel,” Boronkay says. And the food is unfussy but delicious, as the chef, Segundo Farrell, trained under the Argentine barbecue master Francis Mallmann and typically cooks elements of a dish, like charred cabbage with grapefruit, over an open fire. Rooms from about $463, osbornhouse.com.au.

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