Collecting mid-century modernist design can be very addictive. I’ve learnt this firsthand after spending years hunting for modernist furniture bargains for my first apartment - learning the hard way that collecting furniture in your 20s as a renter is a dangerous game. For some collectors who are bitten by the modernist bug, it can go even further.

So what’s the next step beyond furniture and art to satiate a taste for modernism? You buy a mid-century modernist house, of course. Australia developed a rather unique style of building modernist homes. One of the best in the country is undoubtedly the Beachcomber house, and this weekend one of these heritage-trust homes will play host to Tim Ross and some lucky members of the public for the first time in many years.

This Beachcomber house is nestled at the top of a valley in the Blue Mountains, an hour west of Sydney. It isn’t a unique home, but it has lived a very unique life. It’s a project home, a product of the Small Homes Initiative, which was a 1950s Australian government program to commission Australia’s greatest architects to design modular home plans, so that all Aussies building a roof above their heads had access to world-class design. It resulted in thousands of architectural project homes springing up all over the country, including Beachcomber houses designed by Nino Sydney, which were built in the hundreds. As the name suggests, the Beachcomber was designed to overlook the ocean, but this particular Beachcomber made its way to the mountains.