Notes from the build — the planting calendar, the brass casting, the lake that came back after monsoon, the people making it. Written by the team on site and by the few writers we've invited to walk the land before it opens.
Index 04 — Journal
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A note on planting order — and why a four-year-old tree is worth more than a four-month-old one.
A seasonal stream we thought we'd lost has returned. What that means for the court at Sarovar.
The longest unbroken ceiling we've ever made. Hand-cut, hand-fitted, by a workshop in Coimbatore.
Sourcing the stone, the chisel marks we kept, and why every pillar is slightly different.
A residency to paint the ceiling of Chitra, in the same pigments used for four hundred years.
Six months of construction, in seventy-two seconds. The first time the circle reads from above.
Four times a year, a printed letter from the estate. Notes on planting, photographs of the build, and an invitation to walk the land before it opens.