The Geoffrey Bawa Trust, in collaboration with India-based furniture company Phantom Hands, has re-edited a collection of furniture, lighting, and objects designed by Geoffrey Bawa’s practice in the ...

An exhibition focusing on furniture and its role in the wider context of Bawa’s practice is now open in Colombo. Design in the Moment: Furniture by the Geoffrey Bawa Practice closely examines the ...

Now, for the first time, those furniture designs are being revisited and reissued, not as faithful one-to-one replicas, but as ‘reinventions’, carefully stewarded to production by the Bangalore-based ...

Geoffrey Bawa, widely regarded as one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, had a design philosophy that extended beyond buildings, seamlessly integrating furnishings into the fabric ...

Central to Geoffrey Bawa’s practice was his emphasis on local craftsmanship and materials. The late architect once said, “The contribution of the makers, particularly the older carpenters and masons ...

Architect Geoffrey Bawa is one of Asia’s strongest luminaries — with his nod to modernism, distinctive approach to create spaces suffused with light, and use of indigenous materials. His legacy is ...

Geoffrey Bawa (1919–2003) once described his modus operandi as follows: “The site gives the most powerful push to a design along with the brief. Without seeing the site I cannot work. It is essential ...

Geoffrey Bawa; unknown photographer. Image Courtesy of The Geoffery Bawa Trust in Colombo, David Robson and Anjalendran C. Bawa was born in Ceylon (which would become Sri Lanka in 1972), and began his ...

Colombo is beautiful, like a sane, disciplined version of Thiruvananthapuram or Bengaluru. Heritage structures sit elegantly beside contemporary buildings in peaceful self-assured coexistence. The ...

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