Amber Keating lists Potts Point mansion for $22m

8 Challis Ave, Potts Point has a $22m price guide. Fashion designer Amber Keating has listed her historic Potts Point property Killoutan with a $22m price guide. The Arts & Crafts-style mansion at 8 Challis Ave had been a 14-room boutique hotel called Simpsons of Potts Point when Keating bought it for $12.5m in 2020. Her intention had been to turn it back into one of the suburb’s grandest private homes, just as its original architect, John Barlow, had intended when it was built in 1891 for one of his cousins. Keating called in one of the best contemporary architects of the time, Alec Tzannes, to design a massive modern rear extension — a huge greenhouse-style room — inspired by Paris’s House of Glass. MORE: Mum of seven ditches $30m mansion for simple life It comes with approved plans for a renovation by architect Alec Tzannes, which includes a huge greenhouse style room. Sydney fashion designers Amber Keating of Common Hours (left) with Courtney Zheng (right) were part of a group show at last year’s Australian Fashion Week, pictured with models Annalise Lloyd (wearing Common Hours) and Darcy Jackson (wearing Courtney Zheng). Picture: Max Mason-Hubers/The Australian It’s taken ...