Elliot Garnaut’s Material Attachments

Elliot Garnaut has taste. Not just in clothes (he’s a stylist by the way), but in music, Champagne, and the art of doing both in front of a fire with Whitney Houston’s debut vinyl spinning away in the back. Vape in one hand, glass in the other, it’s a scene we at the Melbourne Art Foundation can only dream of.

Another brave soul to let the marketing department into his home (a team of 2 with minimal planning skills), Elliot’s space is curated for elegance and an underlying coziness. It’s the sort of place you plan to visit briefly but somehow find yourself there three hours later.

While he has fallen victim to the Labubu propaganda, Elliot’s home houses works by Nicholas Ives, Hannah Gartside, Drew Connor Holland, as well as a 17th century Tibetan bust that in another timeline, would be languishing in Kim Kardashian’s echoing mansion.

This is Material Attachments, a series in which we visit collectors not for what they’ve bought, but for what they’ve refused to let go of.