22/05/2026
The Guest Bathroom — Khwabgah at the Aravallis
A bathroom composed with the same material honesty as the rest of the house.
Raw lime-plastered walls and a monolithic concrete countertop set the tone — austere, elemental and deeply grounded. A rough-hewn granite sink, paired with a chrome cross-handle faucet, anchors the vanity with quiet sculptural weight. Above it is a picture window that overlooks vistas of farmland with the Aravalli Hills in the distance. On the window’s ledge is an antique Mughal glass hukka base and within it a finely crafted cane thresher from Manipur. A long extendable mirror is screwed on the other side of the window. Beneath the counter, handwoven cane and rattan baskets bring warmth and craft to an otherwise raw palette.
On the counter, almost nonchalantly leans against the wall an antique inlaid mirror in mother of pearl with a wooden frame. This was bought in the mid-eighties, from Khan Khalili in Cairo, and is now entirely at home in deep Haryana in India. As is a striped hand-woven runner in yak wool from the beauteous Northern Regions of Gilgit Baltistan.
Open dark wood shelving hold brass vessels and wooden bowls — each object with its own personal memory. The closed shutters are in finely woven jati cane from the North East.
In the wet area, a bamboo ladder from Indonesia is used as a towel stand. This introduces a moment of quiet ingenuity — functional, beautiful and rooted in craft.
And always through the dark steel-framed picture window, one sees the flaming red flowers of a Kalanchoe creeper. That is Nature, composing the most arresting artwork in the room.
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[K2India, Architecture & Design, Interior Design]
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