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Lavish Victorian drawing rooms and boudoirs, Oriental & Moorish themed rooms featuring exotic materials, Edwardian libraries, smoking rooms, and Art Deco apartments. London's interior design history has now been documented in a book called 'London: Lost Interiors', which features unseen images of some of the capital's most interesting interiors. It's a window into London life from 1880-1940, before many of these magnificent interiors were destroyed or stripped out and lost forever.

麻豆社 Radio London's Robert Elms has been finding out more.

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