Framing St Roch is a new project for forminno.

Just like when you purchase a new journal for ideas, sketches, notes, painting, story writing or simply organising your thoughts that can then evolve into something else, framing St Roch will be the base for forminno to develop designs, illustrations, stories and embrace any other opportunities.

St Roch is a french inspired building set on 3002 square metres of gardens with so many possibilites to explore.

The previous owners wanted the property to be their ‘little escape’. But of course, the architect Pauline Curren allegedly said, “Well, one always has to consider resale value and three bedrooms are better than two, and two bathrooms are better than one, and …”

Most of the houses along Spencer Street are named after saints, so they decided not to break tradition and named their home St Roch. According to Charlie Gilchrist, who wrote an article on the property for INdaily in May 2025, St Roch is the patron saint of illness (so it is a healing house and the owners were both doctors), also the patron saint of dogs (they were both dog people), and lastly, the property was built on solid rock. The steep slope and rocky outcrops posed a challenge during construction.

So why “Framing St Roch”?

Being from a sailing family with traditions and tales surrounding changing names. Priscilla chose to continue the tradition and kept the name but added her stamp to it. It’s evocative and distinctive “framing” works on many levels (picture framing, framing stories, framing a space, frames of a video, architectural framing), and St Roch gives it a strong sense of place, integrity, and identity. It’s memorable, in a way that a more generic art or design blog name wouldn’t be.