Why the world has fallen for this Sydney-based homewares designer

Elise Pioch looks every inch the trope of the impossibly chic Frenchwoman as she expertly docks her restored 1960s vintage Bertram alongside the jetty abutting her waterfront home on Scotland Island, a five-minute boat ride from Church Point on Sydney’s northern beaches. Her voluminous mop of bedhead curls is a look only someone with a rare kind of hair can pull off, then there are the almond eyes, refined bone structure, monochrome outfit paired with oversized black sunglasses…