I'm going to backtrack in this post, to let you see for yourselves the incredible homestead of Sri Lanka's premiere architect, the late Geoffrey Bawa. Trained as a lawyer in the UK, Bawa bought a piece of land by the Lunaganga River, and bit by bit worked on it and ended up with a passion and undeniable talent for architecture.
Andrew and Deepak spent an entire day tracking Bawa's famed and numerous hotels that dot the country of Sri Lanka, and once we were ensconced on the south shores of Bentota Beach, Andrew took me in a tuk-tuk (ha!) to see this unique and gorgeous property, known simply as Lunaganga.
I will let the photos speak for themselves. And they have a lot to say.
As if that didn't whet your appetite for completely remodeling your interiors, we also peeked in at Bawa's Bentota Beach Hotel, his first major hotel project, dated 1967. And while there is an undeniable grooviness in his color palette, the space is clean and timeless. We returned later that day for a wonderful dinner, and walked around on the lawns under the full moon.
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