The super-rich are designing homes inspired by Bridgerton, The Undoing and The Real Housewives – Telegraph.co.uk

It was while freeze-framing an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to scrutinise the dressing room that interior designer Charu Gandhi took stock of just how much life has changed in lockdown.

Where usually her super-rich clients would be asking for expensive home renovations inspired by their worldwide travels to beautiful boutique hotels, art events or fashion shows, with all such sources of diversion off the agenda during the pandemic, they are doing the next best thing: turning to TV.

We are designing a large house in London with a spacious master suite, and when it came to designing the dressing room, the client referenced a specific episode of The Real Housewives as she loved the way in which the central island was organised, and the surrounding joinery, says Gandhi, founder of the design house Elicyon.

Gruesome plotlines are no deterrent to coveted design either. Gandhi has several clients asking for silk wallpaper to match the one in Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grants bedroom in the gripping but grisly drama, The Undoing. Its similar to a de Gournay design, and we wrapped one entire bedroom, including the wardrobes, in a textured silk wallcovering, adding a sense of narrative, depth and richness to the room as in the TV series, she says.

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