Maggie Tabberer, Australia’s first supermodel, has died.
The Bellevue Hill apartment of the late fashion, publishing, television and property icon Maggie Tabberer has been sold.
The three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment sold through Michael Pallier of Sydney Sotheby’s International and Mitchell Farah from First Hand Property with no price disclosure.
Tabberer, who died in 2024, bought for $2.05m in 2014.
The home was listed in October last year with $4.5m price guidance.
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Maggie Tabberer‘s Sydney home has been sold.
One of 12 residences in a secure complex on the edge of the Bellevue Rd village, the typically stylish luxury home listed by her daughters, Brooke and Amanda.
Spanning 160sq m internally, the layout includes an expansive open-plan living, modern island kitchen and dining area with seating for 10. There’s a big master suite, a home office and two more king-sized bedrooms.
The apartment includes two car spaces in the basement.
It was after she sold her Sydney Rd, Randwick, home – set around a courtyard dominated by a fragrant frangipani tree and pool – for $2.41m.
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One of the home’s three bedrooms.
Outdoor space.
White on white.
Tabberer ranked as the earliest of all-white decor influencers, and the Sotheby’s marketing photos show that she maintained that theme until the end.
The darkest object in the apartment is the commanding painting of her that hangs in the dining space
It is the Paul Newton portrait done for the 1999 Archibald Prize, showing her as glamorous, elegant and sophisticated.
Between the plantation shutters, there’s plenty of wall space for other art, including one by family friend Stuart Membery.
Born in Adelaide, she moved to Sydney, via Melbourne, for modelling in 1960
It was Maggie Tabberer and Richard Zachariah’s hit ABC television series, The Home Show, that sparked much interest in home decor style in the early 1990s.
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‘Typically stylish.’
The home was listed last year.
With a $4.5m price guide.
“I’ve always been a white-on-white person,’’ she said at the time.
“I dress in white shirts and trousers, and my houses always have been white throughout – ceilings, walls, the lot.”
Tabberer adored property, and I was was thrilled when she launched my book, The Sydney Hot Property Guide, in 2002.
Columnist Susan Owens once noted her endearing and enduring role having begun “the cult of the home show”.
And Tabberer was never outshone.
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