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The Chinese boudoir has exotic narrative scenes on its red lacquer panelling and is furnished with a large daybed

Many pieces, such as a pair of Louis XV Nogaret fauteuils and
a seventeenth-century Louis XIV Genoese gilt-wood chandelier, are
from a valued collaborator, antiquaire Sylvain Lévy-Alban.
To compensate for relatively low ceilings, Alidad uses oversized
pieces such as the sitting room’s bold Aubusson tapestry, which

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covers one wall from top to bottom. ‘I call it cosmetic architecture,’
he says. The master bedroom has a corner screen that rises to the
ceiling and Alidad’s own ‘slightly mad, Venetian-inspired velvet bed
head,’ which alter the proportions of the room.
The climax of the apartment is the leather-walled dining room,