Jillian Dinkel loves a good story, so it doesn’t take long for the interior designer to bring up Bram Stoker’s Dracula during discussion about her latest residential project. An epochal work of Gothic literature, the novel’s dark portrayal of Victorian England bled into Dinkel’s vision for the design of a singular property on Point Piper’s Kilmory Estate.
Less than two decades after was published in 1897, Kilmory rose above Point Piper on a site that is now among the last of the suburb’s grand estates. Designed by John William Manson of architecture firm Manson & Pickering, the Arts and Crafts-style Federation mansion was built around 1913 for Sir Alexander MacCormick, one
