The arches are painted with wide stripes in hot, spicy colors that Ozbek describes as a circus stripe.

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So were Rifat Ozbek, Hamish Bowles, Victoria Fernandez and, eventually, John Galliano.

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Robin recalls realizing Ozbek was the right man for the job when the two were flipping through Tony Duquette books at the designer's apartment.

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Like Annabel's, it takes up most of the basement, which has been transformed into a theatrical fantasy by Ozbek, the Turkish fashion designer and an old friend of Lucy's.

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The project has included many friends and familymembers, including Rifat Ozbek, Jane Ormsby-Gore, Isabel and Julian Bannerman and Robin's own wife, Lucy Birley, who collaborated with him on the art collection.

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Ozbek describes the bar as Afro-Deco.

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