In 2013, renowned Indian architect Bijoy and his team Studio Mumbai renovated a 50-year-old apartment building halfway up the mountain, The building’s remodeling and conversion into a hotel, along with a café/bar as well as a gallery and shop. It is created with a combination of indian and Japanese crafts and design, and aimed to capture both light and view gracefully.
Log covers an area of 2,600 square meters and has three floors. The only six rooms are on the third floor, with a gallery, cafe, bar and private dining area on the second, and a restaurant, reception and offices on the first. The room, from the walls to the ceiling and even the floor, was made of paper. Bijoy wanted the room to be a space for meditation, which led to the idea of being "cocooned". Barefoot on the paper floor, soft and warm, the sun through the shoji faint, probably only standing here, can understand this sensory enjoyment. The bathroom is also soft milky white. Even details such as wooden frames or cabinets are painted a faint white.
The dominant color here is pink. Tables and chairs, bar, cabinets, walls and so on, the pink of each part has gone through repeated experiments, and the most matching combination has been selected. This dark pink bar is painted in large paint. The surface of the wood was first pasted with paper, then painted, and finally colored. All colours are concocted by British colour artist Muirne Kate Dineen, and the sage green here is calming. The room's Indian furnishings are all original pieces made by Studio Mumbai.
I opened my window to the sea and saw the ferries of the harbour, the old railway tracks, and the shops; On the other side of the window, there are old buildings scattered among the mountains. The scenery on both sides is condensed here, as if connecting the past time and space.