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The Multis Offer Champagne Service in a Show House, Then the Main Lunch in Their Penthouse: I Gift Them a Dog

Friday 18th October 2013

I couldn’t believe the way the Multis had styled a show flat for champagne service. In fact it was a house – newly renovated by the Photo Multi and ready for letting. Lightly furnished but on a side-table a huge ewer brought in and loaded with ice and six bottles of Bollinger as well as a one-off ‘rustic’ tray for the glasses. Four plates (from an Italian ceramic selection) of smoked salmon on speciality bread were strategically placed in the main reception area.

Detail and effort.

The Photo Multi showed the show house. Not one internal wall is where it once was. New wooden floor from top to bottom. Fully marble-ised bathrooms. And, most spectacular, totally unique cupboard insides, devised personally by the Photo Multi.

Then we removed to the Penthouse for the main lunch. Stulke Songingsen, the Blond Multi’s former business partner, came up from the country with her family. She’s opening a vineyard. The Blond Multi’s opening a coffee shop. The lunch zinged with entrepreneurial zing.

I gifted them a dog. It has one ear missing unfortunately. I found it in a Charity Shop I visited with Genevieve Suzy. Also some wicker shopping baskets for when the Multis stroll through their gardens in the new country house (in years to come,when there are gardens), pulling out the odd weed, or picking flowers for the house.

The dog’s on wheels. Stulke’s young son mounted it which was alarmingly. The Photo Multi is especially fond of these toy dogs and used to have one in the window of a previous drawing room. Passers-by were disconcerted because it looked real.