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 Alidad loves using stamped leather in rooms - like rich wallpaper, it immediately brings warmth and atmosphere to a room. His company commissions the
leathers specially; many of them are colourful, but unusually this one is quite monochrome, stamped with elaborate columns and trellises.
The room is multi-purpose, big enough to include both the bed and sitting and writing areas, but it is not very high. Alidad has created an illusion of height by using overscaled egg-and-dart cornicing – and by balancing the vertical lines of the four-poster bed with a huge screen on the other side of the room. This
completely changes the scale. Fabrics are always important in his rooms, but here he has used plain wooden shutters at the windows. With so many textiles
in the room, particularly around the bed, curtains would have been too heavy. It is a question of knowing when to stop.
The fabrics are a wonderful blend of antique, mainly fropm the 17th and 18th centuries, and new designs in palettes that are sympathetic to the faded shades
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