Hotels themed on arts, crafts and design off er a new experience to the art enthusiast
How would you like to be an asura for the night? At the Ravana room at Mumbai’s Le Sutra Art Hotel, there is a life-size mace you could strike a pose with, and a chair with horns at the back—perfect props for a very Instagram-able image. That is not all. One wall of the room is adorned with a painting depicting the demon king in all his facets, from the pundit to the asura. “Then we have, instead of his ten heads, an interpretation of the ten heads through twenty gleaming eyes (on the wall),” said Radha Bajaj, whose family owns the hotel.
No wonder the room commands the highest tariff among all the art concept rooms at Le Sutra. Not the Krishna room, nor the Dushyant-Shakuntala one; not even the Sattvic rooms themed after the Buddha. It is the Ravana room that is most sought after, be it by corporate types travelling on work or the increasing tribe of the art-curious in India.
Hotels themed on arts, crafts and design seem to be the next logical step in the boutique hotel boom in India. As more people travel these days, many believe out-of-the-box innovations like these help a hotel stand out amongst the clutter.
This story is from the March 24, 2019 edition of THE WEEK.
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