Eco warrior Geoff Cousins, award-winning author Darleen Bungey list $30m Point Piper ‘triumph’ - realestate.com.au

Geoff Cousins, who spent 25 years with top advertising agency George Patterson and later became a prominent environmental activist, and Darleen Bungey, whose books have included Arthur Boyd: A Life and John Olsen: An Artist’s Life, are moving to a $20m Paddington apartment.

So now 99 Wolseley Rd, Point Piper — described as a “Mark Pearse-designed masterpiece” and “architectural triumph” with panoramic northerly harbour views to Manly — is up for sale with a price guide of $27.5m-$30m viaThe house is described as an “architectural triumph”.The couple have resided in the luxury three-bedroom, five-bathroom home with double garage on a 639sqm block since 2007, when they paid $10m.

Bungey, whose sister is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks, had moved back to Australia in 2002 after living in the Dakota in New York and Albany in London for many years. Her most recent book is a family memoir called Daddy Cool. Cousins is also the founding chair of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Australian arm of the children’s charity Starlight Foundation in 1988. His collection of Australian contempoary sculpture he put together in his Bowral property was the most significant private collection outside of a public gallery.

The prominent businessman and philanthropist also famously quit The Australian Club in 2021 after it voted down allowing women members.The prominent businessman and philanthropist Geoff Cousin left the Australian Club in 2021 after it voted down allowing women members. Picture: John Feder/The Australian.The Point Piper home is described as an ‘architectural triumph’.

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