September 3, 2026 — 3:00pm

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Behind the blacked-out windows of 466 Sydney Road, four sisters are busy sorting through scores of furniture catalogues, old stock and a lifetime of memories, fully focused on their mission to fulfil a promise to their late father.

For five years, the heavy wooden frames of Franco Cozzo’s signature baroque furniture waited in the dark, a silent time capsule of a moment in Melbourne’s multicultural past.

Lisa Cozzo remembers pulling at her father’s trouser legs as a toddler while he chatted to and charmed…

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