“We wanted a space where art comes first and living second,” says Kallie Blauhorn of her recently completed home in Prahran, Melbourne. It was a bold brief, which has resulted in a majestic, three-storey art-filled bunker nestled within an early-20th century industrial edifice.

On the mid-March day I visit – when visiting was still a thing, though air-kissing déclassé – Blauhorn, who is chair of The Trustee for Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) Foundation, ushers me across the red-brick facade, through a tiny courtyard vestibule and into the concrete expanse of an open-plan ground floor.