Inside $4.5m Melb home built around Italian marble

4 Saxonwood Drive, Doncaster East, turns your pride and joy into a display piece as mancave turns home gallery. A $4.5m Doncaster East house with more than 2.5 tonnes of Italian marble in its kitchen, and an automotive garage below it, has hit the market. Saxonwood at 4 Saxonwood Drive also has an unusual sales campaign, with no conventional public open homes and qualified buyers offered private 45-minute inspections. Dican Developments founder and second-generation Italian builder-developer Dino Cantone said the kitchen was designed around a single block of Calacatta he personally selected in northern Tuscany. RELATED: Melb singer songwriter lists $16m home The Block’s crazy Melb asylum gamble revealed Iconic Melb film house heads for $2.9m+ sale “It was the subtlety of the stone and the texture of the veining,” Mr Cantone said. “I can usually see the finished product before it exists, and when I saw that block, I knew what it could become. “It was selected specifically for Saxonwood. The kitchen was designed around the stone, not the other way around.” More than 2.5 tonnes of Calacatta were eventually used across the kitchen, including its curved island and statement rangehood. S...