Sunday and John Reed’s holiday house at Aspendale, C.1961



Sunday and John Reed’s holiday house at Aspendale, designed by David McGlashan in 1961


In 1961 John and Sunday Reed asked David McGlashan to design a two-bedroom, pavilion-style beach house for them at bayside Aspendale.

Designed and built in just three months on a small piece of land fronting the sand dunes, it was inspired by the idea of a classic bathing box. McGlashan created two parallel, linked pavilions with a courtyard of sand between, supplying good cross ventilation, a suntrap and a safe area for Sunday’s holidaying Siamese cats!