Striking green walls make an eye-catching backdrop for eclectic art in the London apartment of Fahad Hariri, owner and co–artistic director of Paris design firm Pinto. A portrait by Henry Taylor is mounted above the main salon’s fireplace. Pairs of vintage leopard-print chauffeuses and upholstered folding stools, all by Jansen, join matching custom sofas made using a Colefax and Fowler tartan. The curtains are a Morris & Co. fabric, and the Pinto-designed rug was made by Alfombras Peña.

A Craigie Aitchison canvas commands attention in the London pied-à-terre of Fahad Hariri, design firm Pinto’s owner and co–artistic director.

Gracing Hariri’s entry hall is a large canvas by Italian-born, Paris-based artist Giovanni Leonardo Bassan, who also created this poignant 2019 artwork, G.A.F. “What moves me is the way he expresses his own tensions and emotions through different techniques and media,” says Hariri.

A Pinto Collections three-part ceiling light fixture hangs in the entrance hall, where a 19th-century Meissen porcelain monkey perches atop a Yamaha piano that is paired with an Ashanti stool. French and Italian Old Master drawings are displayed alongside a Craigie Aitchison portrait above a circa-1940 French cabinet, and the parquet floor was custom painted in a tiger pattern by Atelier Premiere.

Fahad Hariri stands beneath the entry’s Robert Mapplethorpe mirrored star sculpture.

Hariri commissioned Cédric Peltier to paint a tropical landscape on closet doors in the family room, which he furnished with a custom sofa, a Pierre Frey armchair, and a 19th-century bamboo occasional table; the lamp is made from a 19th-century Delft vessel, the accent pillows are all Pierre Frey fabrics, and the carpet, a Pinto design, is by Alfombras Peña.

“I wanted to evoke the passion for travel that was very present in 19th-century English society and arts,” says Hariri, who commissioned the mural painted on closet doors in the family room. “When I discovered the universe of Cédric Peltier, it was like an ‘invitation au voyage.’ ” The artist’s bespoke installations and murals, such as this jungle scene at Manufactures Emblem in Paris, never fail to inspire wanderlust. 

Vintage Japanese erotic photographs overlook the main salon’s custom daybed in a Pierre Frey fabric; the Maison Charles floor lamps, one in stainless steel and one in brass, are from around 1970, while a Guy de Rougemont side table tucks under a Pinto-designed table crafted by Arte Fabrica.

The tiger-print parquet brings some panache to the kitchen.

Art Deco–inspired lacquer panels animate the dining room, where Hariri installed a vintage monkey chandelier above a marble-and-bronze table designed by Pinto and made by Arte Fabrica. The Xavier Dohr chairs are covered in a tropical print by Carlucci, and Marcel Derny made the bronze bird centerpiece.

Open shelves display sneakers and sunglasses in Hariri’s dressing room, which is also outfitted with a Jean Royère desk and chair; paisley wallpaper by Zoffany amps up the pattern play.

A portrait of Lucian Freud by John Craxton hangs above a Piero Fornasetti chair in a hallway outside Hariri’s bedroom.

In one of the baths, a Hugo Lederer bronze sculpture of a nude fencer stands against a vivid red wall.

Hariri’s bed features a custom-upholstered headboard with Joan Miró– inspired drawings and linens by Maison Duchénoy; the small painting is by Celia Hempton.

Celia Hempton creates small-scale canvases that revel in anonymous intimacy, such as this portrait Hamza, Iraq, 10th May 2017. “I love the unapologetic modern romanticism in her work,” says Hariri, whose bedroom is punctuated by a striking green painting by the London artist. 

In the family room, the idea was to create “a joyful, dynamic space playing on color and material contrasts,” explains Fahad Hariri, owner and co–artistic director of design firm Pinto. “A sensual and provocative touch is brought in with the bicolor walls painted in shocking rose and mandarin orange by Atelier Premiere,” he says, “plus the fun and daring collection of framed pages from the auction catalog for the 2010 Sex sale at Phillips.”

A tribute to the firm’s eponymous founder, A Portrait of Alberto Pinto (from “Pictures of Diamonds”), by Brazilian artist Vik Muniz watches over the 17th-century staircase at Hôtel de la Victoire, Pinto’s Paris headquarters.

To reflect the unabashedly English atmosphere of the main salon, Hariri says, he looked largely to British artists—among them Keith Vaughan, Austin Osman Spare, and Peter Lanyon. The exception is a statement-making cobalt work by Argentinean Italian painter Lucio Fontana.

“I have a special attachment to my Glyn Warren Philpot painting in the dining room,” says Hariri, referencing the early 20th-century British painter known for his evocative portraits. “I have another of his pieces in Paris, and it creates a link between the two cities, especially since he was a London painter who moved to Paris in the early 1930s to embrace modernism.”