Month: April 2017

I am guilty! I haven’t updated this blog for ages despite being in India at Villa Malpe since January. So what’s going on?

Well, when we arrived here in early January the house was supposed to be ready (built) but it wasn’t. In fact I was dismayed at how much work remained. So I sat down with the contractor and his people and asked them to prepare a new progress plan. This is a requirement in our contract and is meant to regulate the time the contarctor needs to complete the construction.

So after the 3 broken deadlines of 26th May 2016, 28th August 2016 and 1st January 2017, a new target date of 15th February was set by the contractor (not by me) with a work breakdown schedule of all the remaining tasks. That date passed and a lot remained. So the contractor said he’d be done by 15th of March. Then the 29th of March.

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Our man on the ground, Chandan, has taken the responsibility of completing the remaining work in our absence. Chandan has worked for us for 8 years and moved south with his family to help me with the project. He’ll be living in the house in a separate flat once it’s completed.

-Gautam (8.4.17)

We were delighted to host Hege from Meyerdesign in Norway for over a week. She has designed patterns and colour palettes for textiles and the interior of Villa Malpe. We plan to use her design and suggestions  for all textiles – curtains, cushions, bedspreads, bed linen, towels and table linen.

After Hege had spent a couple of days getting a feel of Villa Malpe and the surroundings, we went to Bengaluru to meet two printers. Padmini from Tharangini Studios spesialises in block printing and has a workshop and shop on her family estate in serene surroundings in the heart of Bengaluru. Sateeshan has a few large digital textile printing machines that can pretty much print any digital pattern on almost any textile.

Two very different approaches – block printing vs. digital printing – left us in quandry. Both have their advantages, but whereas block printing is charming, earthy and natural, the digital print is precise and can be fine tuned in accordance with Hege’s design.

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