Superior King Bed Room

The room is 26 square metres and does not feel it, because the ceiling is a good deal higher than a hotel built this century would have given it. That comes of a 1955 building on Lutyens land, where the height of a room was settled before anyone was counting square metres.

A buttoned headboard runs the width of the wall between two mirrored strips, and there is a valet stand at the bedside — a period detail or a useful object, depending on how you travel. Engravings of Delhi before the New City hang along the wall, and there are enough of them that no two rooms have the same 3.

There is no view here and none is claimed. The window is large and the room is bright until 4. What you are paying for is height, quiet and the address.