Carrie and the PM blew £7,560 on sofas, £8,500 on lamps – and £3,675 on a ‘Nureyev drinks trolley’ that actually features two pairs of brass hands desperately clinging on. Is this the most metaphorical home accessory ever?
for the gaudy makeover of the No 11 apartment, by “boho-Sloane” interior designer Lulu Lytle, has raised eyebrows with its lavish list of £7,560 sofas, £8,500 lamps, and a £3,000 “paint effect” in the hallway. But it also provides a revealing window into what might have triggered Johnson’s recent bout of Trump-like madness.
The £3,650 Leighton table and the £3,800 Hurlingham bookcase would both be at home in a Raj-era governor’s palace. At first glance, it looks like your standard Kensington oligarch’s drinks cart. Its tempered glass shelves are protected by ornamental rails topped with twiddly finials – always handy to stop bottles falling off when your superyacht hits choppy waters.
While the decorating scandal has long been known as “wallpapergate”, it might be surprising to learn that the infamous “gold wallpaper” is neither gold nor one of the more expensive items on the list. A snip at £2,250 for 10 rolls, thewallpaper design is another French knock-off, derived from an early 19th-century pattern, depicting interwoven green branches in a neverending grid.
We have no way of knowing how the Johnsons deployed the wallpaper, but we are told that Lytle imagines the design being used to cover not only the walls of a room but also the ceiling, to give the “all-encompassing effect” of a fruit tree trained into a tunnel or pergola.
Beyond the sense of fortified desperation, the shopping list reflects other sides of the prime minister’s worldview. In keeping with
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