Bawa House Colombo11/8/2021
Managed by the Geoffrey Bawa Trust after the architect’s death in 2003, the house. Photography courtesy the Geoffrey Bawa Trust. A Saarinen Coffee Table in the corner of the guest living room at the Number 11 Residence. In the Number 11 Residence in Colombo, Bawa’s home and studio, this wholehearted love of design is most acutely expressed.Intricate traditional carved timber doors and columns represent the abundant local craftsmanship. Elegant and raw, tactile rendered walls meet glossy epoxied floors and heavy thick arched walls provide cool comfort. Lunuganga is a distant retreat, an outpost on the edge of the known world, a civilized garden within. 'Looking back over his career, two projects hold the key to an understanding of Bawas work: the garden at Lunuganga that he has continued to fashion for almost fifty years, and his own house in Colombos Bagatelle Road. At once architecturally cultured and almost primitively executed, it is peppered with unexpected follies and exotic moments of the outside brought in.Bawa House Commentary. In 1958 Bawa bought the third in a row of four small houses which lay along a short cul-de-sac.Number 11, Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa’s private residence in Colombo, is an eclectic lesson in refined taste.
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