The room
Opening the door.
The room
Opening the door.
Villa
Kodava building tradition done properly rather than referenced. Red laterite cut by hand into blocks, a deep tiled roof with carved barge-boards, turned pillars, brass door furniture, terracotta floors and a coffered rosewood ceiling — all of it drawn from the ainemane, the ancestral Kodava clan house, at a scale no clan house ever reached. Inside there is a full living room with planters' chairs and a carved daybed in an alcove, then a bedroom with a four-poster behind it, then a bathroom under a red-stained timber ceiling with a tub, a separate shower and a door to an open-to-sky court.
The courtyard is the point. It is walled, it is yours, and it holds a rectangular pool heated to 26 degrees with a round jet pool set into the terrace beside it, two planters' chairs on the grass and a lantern on the wall. Nobody overlooks it, and nothing is visible from it but your own roofline and the trees over the wall — the reverse of the Lily Pool villas, whose decks open straight onto the plantation. The 4,400 square feet counts that courtyard and that pool; the building inside it is a good deal smaller, and floor area was never the point of this villa.
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