Wednesday, January 02, 2013

delhi - the imperial hotel

How exquisitely colonial- white symmetry plush with marble and white tile, fountains, chandeliers and caryatids. A sort of controlled luxury. Too prim to let itself go completely into baroque excess but making sure that you don’t mistake it for anything but a pleasure garden. The trim highlights the doorways and the junctions between the surfaces with stone and white cornices. The curtains in the verandah are blue and the servers wear the red of carpets.








it was only to see a lutyens building that we had lunch at the imperial hotel. 

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