From left: A sitting room at No. 11, Geoffrey Bawa's former home in Colombo; Bawa at work in 1996. Credit: From left: Sebastian Posingis; Dominic Sansoni ...

When you visit Geoffrey Bawa’s house in this quiet ... a lagoon-side estate in Sri Lanka’s south and his rural idyll. Bawa died at No 11 in 2003 and was buried by a tree at Lunuganga.

Calls ahead made by Number 11 mean I have been given Bawa’s favourite room, 507, at the angle on the top floor. Bawa’s genius here was to site the hotel hard against the cliff face, with the ...

There will also be Open Days at No.11, Geoffrey Bawa’s Colombo Residence on May 26, 28 and 31 Entrance for this is free but pre-registration is required. An Open Day at Lunuganga, Bawa’s country ...

Bawa’s elegant 1934 Rolls Royce is parked at No 11 alongside his 1953 Mercedes Benz (the garage integrated into the house) and the designer’s presence can still be felt.

On the centenary of the birth of Geoffrey Bawa, Emma Love takes a tour of his forest-engulfed hotel and the dreamy landscape of his ... Tuesday 25 June 2019 11:15 BST. Comments. open image in gallery.

Working alongside Channa Daswatte, Bawa’s close collaborator in his final years and now chairperson of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust, Phantom Hands has spent more than 18 months researching and evolving 20 ...

Now, for the first time, those furniture designs are being revisited and reissued, not as faithful one-to-one replicas, but as ‘reinventions’, carefully stewarded to production by the Bangalore-based ...

Updated - December 20, 2024 11:28 am IST . Deepthi Sasidharan. Copy link Email ... Furniture at Geoffrey Bawa’s Colombo residence, ...

The High Commission of Sri Lanka, the Government of India, the Ministry of Culture in India, and the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi with the Geoffrey Bawa Trust Colombo, present Geoffrey ...

Geoffrey Bawa has designed several iconic buildings in India, including Madurai Boys’ Town, Madurai Club, Hotel Connemara Remodelling in Chennai, Hotel at Pondicherry in Puducherry, Candoline Hotel in ...