In a journalistic coup lucky, the editor of style and design of "Middle Silence" Maquita Pérez-Lyon, had the opportunity to visit the home of Osama bin Laden shortly before the homeowner, who opened the doors of his residence exclusively for this medium, died in tragic circumstances.
Maquita then traveled to Islamabad to Abbottabad in Pakistan, where the house, thanks to the courtesy of Lan Chile and Jumbo supermarkets. Here
its report, which now has undoubtedly become a historical record.
"THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF CHIC"
By: Maquita Pérez-Lyon
Photos: Joachim Heiremans
Production: Julia Dumont Shell
Abbottabad, a small community on the outskirts of Islamabad, could easily be described as "the Chicureo of Pakistan."
The blue-gray sky, large trees, children playing ball in the afternoons, and lots and vacant land, immediately bring to mind the Santiago area where the city life and field meet and where the clock seems to strike the hours at a slower pace.
for its fresh air and its emphasis on security, this is, as Chicureo, the perfect place to raise a family, as has the owner of this house with his three wives and nine children.
"I feel safe. This is my refuge, "he says to meet us at the door. "It is the only place in the world where I feel I can sleep in peace. "
The three-story house looks solid and minimalist which is repeated in its careful yet simple decor. Is that home owners if something is to pretend they hate, and therefore have decided that no more luxurious simplicity. "It's not silver, is a question of educating the eye," they say. The dining table, for example, a piece of wood, old, with a pair of candlesticks over. A luxury! In soils no carpet or anything that disturbs visually, as in a monastery. Joachim
Heiremans, our photographer, who comes from a family with a good eye, I said we had the front garden was one of the loveliest of which had been in Pakistan, wild with own garden, very boho chic. " This is where the homeowner, now in semi retirement, he devotes his evenings to his true passions: gardening, the study of birds, reading, Jihad and manufacture weapons of mass destruction.
The master bedroom, located on the third floor of the house is the perfect example of "shabby chic", and although a bit small for four people-a husband and three women, has the warmth of worn cotton sheets of rich feather pillow, the mattress is old and an old friend.
is, to put it another Thus, an entertaining room, where things happen.
This house, as well as simple as you see, it costs about a million dollars but has no air conditioning or hot tub or gourmet kitchen .. So if you have, dozens of little doors and crannies, secret staircases, underground tunnels and even a bunker in the back, under the acacia, which more than anything, says the homeowner, is now used as a henhouse.
Perhaps the only oddity of this family, "achoclonada" is the art, such as installing machine guns stacked in a corner of the living and the collection of maps and pictures of the most beautiful sites in New York.
Here Joachim photos of this house so special. Enjoy!
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