Royal Suite

The dome is the room: gold and cream lozenges rising to a cut-glass chandelier hung at the centre of them, over red and gold sofas around an inlaid table, silver elephants on the console, and Pichola through the windows on two sides. The third floor is what makes it so light.

The rest is Mewar craft used properly rather than quoted: thikri, the local mirror-inlay work, run through the interiors with gold-leaf floral and paisley motifs over it, handcarved white marble inlays, mother-of-pearl. The master bedroom has a four-poster with slim turned posts against a wall of pierced brass screenwork. There is a dining room of its own with silver-framed chairs and a gilt convex mirror on the panelling, a private kitchenette so in-suite service arrives without anyone crossing the living room, and a marble bathroom with a jacuzzi. There is exactly one of these.