Brick by brick
Mar 06, 2019
4 minutes
Story by Kate Le Gallez.
Photography by
Angela Lisman
.
The first time Michael Scarpantoni stood inside Daringa House, he was just a child. His best friend was the nephew of Ken Maxwell, who owned the house at the time. Then, it was cold and damp. Concrete had been rendered part way up the wall in an attempt to stabilise the brickwork, while the floor went up and down creating different levels where there shouldn’t be any.
Decades later, this personal connection, alongside the home’s historic significance as the first dwelling in McLaren Vale, would sustain Michael and brother Filippo (Fil) through the three-year project to rebuild Daringa House, quite literally, brick by brick.
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