"What's interesting now is that the design field is also attached to the art world, " Van der Straeten says, sitting beneath a Jason Martin painting hanging above one of his consoletables.
The richly coloured damask-covered walls do evoke the palaces for which many of the pictures were intended, but those palace rooms would have been furnished with mirrors and gilded consoletables and the pictures hung in tiers.
And they can take advantage of wood fold-down airline-like tray tables, a large center console that includes a closed storage compartment and side window shades should they feel the need to get some work accomplished while en route.