Walsh Street is an experimental house, designed to be enjoyed and explored by all who visit, and now the home of the Robin Boyd Foundation. Furnished with pieces designed by Boyd’s associates Grant and Mary Featherston, and others, the house provides a unique insight into Melbourne’s design leaders of the 50s and 60s.

An invitation from Robin and Patricia Boyd to Walsh Street was one of the most coveted invitations in Melbourne. For members of Melbourne’s arts and cultural community it was a special place to meet, discuss and dine. The house was designed to be enjoyed and experienced, and exists in a near original state, just as it did whilst the Boyd family lived here, right down to the furniture, artwork and books.

Experience the unique aspects of how the house addresses the street, how the front door opens into the main pavilion and draws you into the ‘heart’ of the home – the courtyard garden, one of the most pleasurable aspects of the house.  Also, its unique, cantilevered roof draws the eye down toward the greenery of the courtyard, providing glimpses through the various levels and zones of the home, towards the children’s pavilion and views to the city and mountains beyond. The openness and looseness of the spaces generate a sense of welcoming informality and comfort, which affords a high degree of flexibility for entertaining and the varying degrees of privacy necessary for day-to-day family life.

This 3D tour is the result of a collaboration between the Robin Boyd Foundation volunteers, Arup and PHORIA and the first digital presentation of the work of the Robin Boyd Foundation Collection team.