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Parody SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE OF INTERIOR DESIGN FEBRUARY 2002 TORA BORA GLORIA! A Demanding Client Creates A Stylish Retreat by Annette...
...A must, if you’ve got four squabbling wives...
...Ironically, they found that a Jerusalem stone complemented the air of overheated fanaticism they were looking for...
...I was looking for someone who could do a blend of styles, but as I got into the process I discovered I was simply passionate about chintz...
...And given that Osama would likely be incinerated in these rooms, we thought a summertime palette would work best...
...Gloomy, gloomy, gloomy...
...What I love about the place,” bin Laden enthuses, “is that it doesn’t say ‘bunker.’ It says, ‘festival.’ I could spend the rest of my life here, or maybe even two weeks, whichever’s longer...
...He hired the Saudi/Egyptian firm Elegant Jihad, which had earlier renovated Saddam Hussein’s bunker in what looked like antique boiserie...
...We wanted to create a place where people could congregate,” says Jean-Marie Omar, a principal with the firm...
...We really wanted to move beyond the whole beard-turban-shoulder- mounted-artillery look,” says Jean-Marie...
...But he saw the space had “good bones...
...It was quiet, and surprisingly airy considering it was nuclear bombproof “As I get older I find I like to declutter my life,” Osama says, but he knew he had to hire an interior design professional...
...A Demanding Client Creates A Stylish Retreat by Annette Giovannini When Osama bin Laden moved into his rural retreat near the charming hillside village of Tora Bora, he knew he had a major project on his hands...
...he chirps...
...One of bin Laden’s aides, Pierre, was so crazy about the new music room—a scrumptious blend of Art Deco stylings and 17th-century stenciled leather—that he strapped some explosives around his waist and immediately became part of the wall and ceiling décor...
...It’s stale...
...And a clean Swedish line with Native American accessories completed the atmosphere that Osama says is “comfortable but edgy...
...he says of the remote cave’s earlier design...
Vol. 7 • December 2001 • No. 14
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