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Meet the woman who's given multi-million pound budgets to design the world's richest people's homes

Apr 6, 2016, 15:39 IST

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One of the most fascinating things about the world's richest people is how they live.

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From plush mansions, to incredible boats, to the places they eat and what luxurious modes of transport that take them to those restaurants - it's all about elite living, which is alien to most of the population.

However, for Mathilde Allibe, the CEO and founder of the elite architecture and interior design company Secretcape, this is a world that she is most saturated in.

In fact, her job is to make the richest people in the world's homes utterly beautiful and cutting edge in terms of maximising space and engineering to make it happen.

Allibe's Secretcape designs the interiors for £10 million to £300 million homes across the world. Currently she has seven projects on the go - six in London and one in Spain. She has several teams that work for her all the way through design, architecture, project management, finances and aftercare. The latter being a team helping clients move in once they project is completed. Her clients give her budgets of "millions, not one million" to design the inside of a house. Some give a limitless budget.

But to get a taste for what Allibe and her team do, she invited Business Insider into 8 Chesham Place - a seven storey property in Belgravia, London, which was sold to someone for £19 million. He is moving in on Sunday.

Mathilde Allibe, CEO of Secretcape spoke to Business Insider in London.Business Insider/Lianna Brinded

After putting on provided for slippers and sitting in one of the several lounging areas at the Chesham Place property, Allibe revealed to Business Insider all about the world she moves in and what level of time and detail goes into making the homes of millionaires and billionaires so incredible.

"It isn't just about putting on some paint and getting in furniture, what our clients want is extremely high end detail that never crosses the minds of you and I. For example, clients are very particular to the detail of how a window opens and shuts," said Allibe.

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"Some people want their entire home linked to their iPhone - from light switches to full video recordings of what's happening inside - to having safe rooms installed."

"Buildings like these take two or three years to complete."

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