Showing posts with label Itmad-ud-Daulah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Itmad-ud-Daulah. Show all posts

Friday, January 08, 2010

ART DECO GLORY

The art deco Umaid Bhawan in Johdpur and the Persian Itmad-Ud-Daulah in Agra do it for me. Those two alone make as visit to India worthwhile. To create a palace as vast as Umaid Bhawan demanded extraordinary courage from the architect and an obsessive attention not only to detail but to a continuity of decorative vision. The result is breath taking. Check out the web site.