575 Wandsworth Road, London, was the home of Kenyan poet and civil servant Khadambi Asalache until his death in 2006.

[1] For 20 years,[3] he decorated it internally with Moorish-influenced fretwork,[1] which he cut by hand from discarded pine doors and wooden boxes.

Tim Knox, director of Sir John Soane's Museum, in Nest in 2003, described it as: extremely serious and carefully worked out exercise in horror vacui, taking its inspiration from the Mozarabic reticulations of the Moorish kingdoms of Granada.

The work takes inspiration from the Great Mosque of Cordoba, the Alhambra and Generalife in Granada, doors in Zanzibar, panelled interiors in Damascus, and the waterside houses or yalı in Istanbul.

[1] They accepted the property, subject to raising an endowment of £3–5 million for its maintenance,[3][5] as they considered it a building: of national significance and should be safeguarded ... a great work of art and an important part of our built heritage,[5]Following major conservation work, in 2013 the National Trust began pre-booked guided tours of the house.