“Staying at Crofters Fold is an immersion. Besides the stunning ancient granite landscape Crofters Fold is set upon, the property seems to have a magical hum about it.

In Les Miserables, Victor Hugo writes “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” The lyrical power of Paul Bangay’s gardens allow the wanderer to lose themselves in dreams sculpted from the divine.

Paul Bangay is working from a private studio in his country residence Stonefields, “My mother was a great gardener. She was very involved in design back then, very much a native focus. She used to work with Ellis Stone, the famous landscape designer. It was a garden that evolved all the time, that’s what I loved about it,” explains Paul, nostalgically. “I grew up in the outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, we had ten acres so I had my own collection of ferns and a big vegie garden.”

The Italian designer Massimo Vignelli once said, “Good design is a language, not a style.” Bowen & Kenneth’s interiors don’t just conjure an artful voice, the homes they furnish become flirtatious conversations that highlight the luxury of living.

Amongst Egyptian chandeliers, French provincial porters chairs and a hand-carved Indian Mandala; a myriad of ornate furnishings illuminate the imagination of designers Johanathan Kenneth McMahon and Samuel Bowen Pridmore, co-founders of the Bowen & Kenneth boutique in Daylesford.