Cinema Cribs!

It looks like ‘king’ of all things disaster, director Roland Emmerich, needs to rethink more than just his choice in movies. While he may have thought that the equivalent of high-action CGI and pyrotechnics in the home would come in the form of a taxidermy zebra standing in his living room, and a waxwork statue of the late Pope John Paul II hiding under the stairs, it looks more likely that designer John Teall is having a joke at the director’s expense, especially when you compare the full extent of the ridiculous décor that Teall has kitted out Emmerich’s town house in Knightsbridge with, to the design job Teall himself completed on his own home shortly after. Passable as an art exhibition perhaps, but as a place to live in, surely this is just too spectacle obsessed.

Roland Emmerich’s town house in Knightsbridge

John Teall’s home