The original fixtures of the room were embraced and enhanced, including red cloth-covered tables, candles, chandeliers, velvet flock wallpaper, and the central focus - the cabaret stage.
The wall have been hung with hand-printed flock wallpaper.
Sitting in the wood-panelled bar of his restaurant, the Cinnamon Club in Westminster, we could not be further away from the flock wallpaper of a traditional curry house.
He has been running the club for 30 years, and dutifully preserving its original flock wallpaper, chandeliers and plush velvet furnishings.
I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper.
The restaurant was cramped and, despite the flock wallpaper and carpeted floor, very noisy.