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In the living room, Paolo worked from the reds, creating a supremely comfortable background for intriguing objects like a 19th century French oval mirror and a
Buccellati silver monkey. With walls bathed in a custom sand colour, the red cotton curtains and red chenille sofa warm the natural palette, sofa pillows include a
mix of bronze silk and antique French embroidery

opened it up into the dining room. You can see through from one
room to the next. This is a small family – they have only one child
is baking a cake in the kitchen, their daughter is playing the piano in
the drawing room and her father is reading in the library, they all feel
they’re together. None of the rooms are tucked away.
Are there other signature Moschino looks here?
Well, I never put a sofa against a wall. To start, if you have a sofa
right against a wall you can’t put a table behind it, and I like to put a

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but I like every room to be a bit of a surprise, I wouldn’t want anyone
to come in here and say, ‘Oh my god, all the rooms are all the same.’
These backgrounds are normally neutral, but they have so much
the patina of age and I use a colour I call ‘greige’ – a gray beige –
quite a lot. I painted the mouldings darker shades of the wall colour
box. In the dining room people always ask. ‘What kind of wallpaper
is that?’ It’s actually hand-painted. The idea was to do a chinoiserie
white scene – white trees, white leaves, all very whitewashed. Yes, a
little like a fresco.