LK : How long have you had this room?
Marko Matysik: I have been living in my Chelsea penthouse for 11 years.

LK: What do you have on your walls?
Marko Matysik: My walls are hung with oil paintings that I was commissioned to do for Vogue China on the Haute Couture collections.

LK: What is the most precious object in your room?
Marko Matysik: My most sentimental object is an 50's pop style ashtray that I found at a car boot sale for 50 pence.

LK: What do you love most about your room?
Marko Matysik:The large windows letting in light.

LK: What do you hate about your room?
Marko Matysik: I don't hate anything but get irritated when coming back from a long trip that there is no lift and that my hefty luggage need to be carried.

LK: How does your room reflect your personality?
Marko Matysik: It's eclectic.

LK: Do you collect anything?
Marko Matysik: I collect Boudicca that I have been collecting since there first season, antique buttons, antique buckles, minerals, fossils, semi precious stones and chatelaines.

LK: What is the strangest thing in your room?
Marko Matysik: A Brazilian love potion made up by Brazilian drag queen witch doctors in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest.

LK: What's the most expensive thing in your room?
Marko Matysik: The contents of my jewelry boxes.

LK: Why did you choose this colour for the walls?
Marko Matysik: Since I work from home, I chose white so that I would not be influenced by wall colour

LK: What can you see from your bedroom window?
Marko Matysik: The view from my window is a bit like a still from the film set of 'Mary Poppins' with it's chimney tops and roofs beyond that I see the V&A, Science museum, today I saw mallard that I fed biscuits and on sunny days the heavenly actress Nina in often seen on her roof top in the buff.

Photos by Robin Bharaj

Written by:
charlie

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