25 Park Lane

His Park Lane home was previously owned by his parents Edward Sassoon and Aline Caroline de Rothschild.

Peter Stansky author describes the house as having had a four-story-high marble staircase, a conservatory, a winter garden and a ballroom.

Previously decorated by his mother Lady Sassoon after the First World War he undertook extensive changes filling the house with French Furniture, tapestries and his most important paintings.

I can assure you that deep red roses in porphyry vases reflected in black glass give an effect that is not without uniqueness".

The work was entitled Caravans of the East which covered the walls with Greek temples of camels, palm trees, elephants and exotic figures on their way through a desert.