巴西驻印度大使官邸丨印度新德里丨Andre Aranha Corrêa do Lago

大使Corrêa do Lago是一位充满激情的建筑爱好者，是现任普利兹克奖评审团成员，该评审团在2018年将BV Doshi选为这一著名奖项的获得者，他多年来一直关注着新德里的职位。作为多边外交和气候变化方面的专家，他经常访问印度，对印度作为文化超级大国和经济强国日益增长的影响力十分着迷。因此，当他得到这份工作时，这所殖民时期的住宅的匀称之美是锦上添花。

Ambassador Corrêa do Lago, a passionate architecture enthusiast who serves on the current Pritzker Prize jury, which selected BV Doshi for the prestigious award in 2018, confesses to having eyed the New Delhi post for years. As a specialist in multilateral diplomacy and climate change, he visited India frequently, fascinated by its growing clout as cultural superpower and economic powerhouse. So when the job finally fell in his lap, the well-proportioned beauty of the colonial residence was the icing on the cake.

对现代主义设计的执着只是将这对夫妇的众多品味联系在一起的一个方面。他和他的妻子Beatrice都来自国际化大都市的收藏家家庭，这就是为什么他们家每一间屋子都有独特的宝藏的原因之一。这位大使的祖父Osvaldo Aranha是一位杰出的巴西政治家和外交部长；他和他的父亲一样，都是一名外交官，而他的弟弟Pedro则痴迷于收集文学手稿和信件。

A devotion to modernist design is but one of the many strands of taste that unites the couple. He and his wife, Beatrice both come from cosmopolitan families of inveterate collectors, one reason why room after room of their home yields distinctive troves of treasure. The ambassador's grandfather, Osvaldo Aranha, was a distinguished Brazilian statesman and foreign minister; his father, like himself, a diplomat, while his brother Pedro is an obsessive collector of literary manuscripts and letters.

他的妻子Beatrice出生在巴黎，是法国、意大利、西班牙和希腊血统的混血儿。她的祖父是Paul-Louis Weiller，是一战期间法国著名的航空英雄，后来成为了富有的金融家和慈善家。

His wife, Paris-born Beatrice, is of mixed French, Italian, Spanish and Greek ancestries. Her grandfather was Paul-Louis Weiller, the famous French aviation hero of World War I and later, a wealthy financier and philanthropist.

在这间住宅的小客厅的一面墙上挂着Marie Laurencin和Jean Cocteau的韦勒肖像画；旁边是她的希腊祖母的杂志封面，她是1930年著名的欧洲小姐。热情的收藏家、藏书家和唯美主义者，Corrêa do Lagos夫妇的环球旅行商队中，所有东西都是通过收购或继承而来的。有些来自他们所经过的土地上的意外发现。

A wall of the small sitting room is hung with Weiller's portraits by Marie Laurencin and Jean Cocteau; nearby are magazine pin-ups of her Greek grandmother, a celebrated Miss Europe of 1930. Enthusiastic collectors, bibliophiles and aesthetes, not everything in the Corrêa do Lagos' globetrotting caravan came to them through acquisition or inheritance. Some of it is from the serendipity of the lands through which they've passed.

Interiors:AndreAranhaCorreadoLago

Photos:AshishSahi

Words:小鹿