The bath in my room had a deep cast-iron tub and floors laid with large, pale-gray stone tiles that Kime reclaimed from an embassy in Alexandria a few years ago.
Although most of the furniture was bought by Braka and Graham, the couple enlisted Robert Kime, the celebrated decorator who was appointed by the Prince of Wales to renovate Clarence House, to design the bedrooms and sitting rooms in his trademark style of fine upholstery mixed with English and Ottoman fabrics.