INSITE FOCUS: Architects Oscar & Ponni
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Welcoming the traveller
Luxurious yet Pragmatic Environments
Intro: The accomplished award-winning husband and wife team of Architect Oscar G. Concessao and Architect Ms Ponni M. Concessao, collectively bring their stellar knowledge and versatile global experience to their projects. Their hospitality projects provide yet another facet of an excellent aesthetic and culinary experience.
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The design for the flagship hotels for a prestigious international hotel chain, Accord Puducherry and The Accord Metropolitan Hotel, Chennai, has evolved based on the facility requirement carefully utilising maximum urban vistas, consciously creating a feeling of blending with the cityscape and the immediate context.
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Tones of minimalism are evoked in artefacts and the furniture. The hotel in all respects evokes a sense of style, luxury and comfort with an international flavour.
While Asian cuisine is served in the exclusive Indianaa restaurant, the southern cuisine restaurant the 'Royal Indiana' is a recent addition to the specialty restaurant names in Chennai catering to the discerning clientele of this part of the region by serving authentic cuisines from the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Tamil Nadu.
The speciality restaurant has a total seating for eighty people, including a six-seater private room and a separate seafood counter on the east of the main entry. To create a real atmosphere of the regions from where the recipes have been derived, they have recreated the interiors from the magnificent 150-year-old teakwood doorway to the 90-year-old teakwood pillars placed on stone chiselled bases. Beautifully created decades old Tanjore Paintings adorn the walls with traditional sculptures placed at vantage points, and furniture is procured from the Chettinad
...bsequently Anne Zahalka successfully explores her interest in expressing the psychological space of the hotel room through the emotional states of the guests, achieved through her carefully constructed compositions and devices which create and emphasise the emotion evident.
One quality that is involved in a restaurant is the atmosphere and the positive energy it gives off. Considering the Western theme, they have the restaurant well decorated from the entrance, to the place where you sit. The walls are painted with tumbleweeds on them, with great lighting that allows you to see, and not go blind. The plates and silverware are very nice, as is the food that goes into them.
And with good reason! The sheer luxury of the property is overwhelming. The mansion has 34 beautifully decorated rooms that boast 15th through 19th century art and furnishings. While blending together harmoniously, there is nothing subtle about the elaborately carved furniture, voluminous drapes, ornate carvings, and the richly colored tiles. The intent is to convey the excesses of wealth, which it does, albeit with grace and elegance.
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... wall of gleaming blue and green tiles. Teak chaise lounges lay upturned on the floor, incredibly well preserved, and above them was an arabesque dome covered in gold leaf. I had entered the elegant spa on the most luxurious ships of its time.” (Cameron,100)
...hey have entered the house, and then keeps it as you pass through the disappearing walls, pivoting doors, retractable stairs, and floating floors. It incorporates architecture, interior architecture and furniture design to create a total design that can be modified for different occupants. It truly is functional space.
But these contrived differences give rise to esthetic difficulties too. Because inherent differences—those that come from genuinely differing uses—are lacking among the buildings and their settings, the contrivances repre...
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