Inside Billionaire Naveen Jindal's Lutyens' Delhi bungalowLutyens' Delhi was conceived, a little over a century ago, as a city of order: wide avenues, low bungalows, deliberate distances between power and everything around it.
Edwin Lutyens built the residences to project a certain restraint, colonial in its architecture but designed to outlast the empire that commissioned it.
Many still stand today exactly as they were allotted, handed from one official occupant to the next, their character legally untouchable.
"The most important thing was to create a home that could accommodate two very different sides of life, official as well as private," she says.
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Inside Billionaire Naveen Jindal's Lutyens' Delhi bungalow
Lutyens' Delhi was conceived, a little over a century ago, as a city of order: wide avenues, low bungalows, deliberate distances between power and everything around it. Edwin Lutyens built the residences to project a certain restraint, colonial in its architecture but designed to outlast the empire that commissioned it. Many still stand today exactly as they were allotted, handed from one official occupant to the next, their character legally untouchable.
That was the starting point for designer Amina Bhatia when she was given a nearly century-old bungalow spreading over 10,000 square feet in Moti Bagh, allotted to industrialist and parliamentarian Naveen Jindal after his electoral victory, and asked to turn it into a space that could hold both his public duties and his private life without either one crowding out the other.
A parliamentary residence is usually judged on function alone: a setting for meetings, visitors, and formal exchanges. For Bhatia, that was never going to be enough. "The most important thing was to create a home that could accommodate two very different sides of life, official as well as private," she says. "We wanted both to have their own identity while still feeling like one home."
The brief, in other words, wasn't architectural so much as biographical. Jindal is a politician, an industrialist, a family man, and, notably, a polo enthusiast, and Bhatia's task was to let all four versions of him coexist under one roof without the house ever risking an identity crisis.
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