Boutique Hotel · India · 2025
The Mantis, a boutique hotel in India
- Location
- India
- Year
- 2025
- Typology
- hospitality
- Scope
- Concept design · Interior design · Lobby & public areas · Guest suites · Bespoke joinery · Lighting design · Furniture & FF&E · Styling
- Materials
- Gold-veined and book-matched marble, Blue-stone vanity tops, Sage-green panelling and wainscoting, Teal velvet and aged-leather upholstery, Herringbone parquet and black-and-white stone floors, Antique-gold mirrors and brass fittings, Crystal orb chandeliers and scalloped sconces
The Mantis is a boutique hotel in India conceived to feel less like a hotel and more like a grand private home that happens to take guests. ZuriSpace led the interior from concept through to styling: the arrival sequence, the double-height lobby and lounges, the guest suites and the bathrooms. The language is deliberately classic and unhurried, panelled and wainscoted walls, herringbone parquet, book-matched marble, antique-gold mirrors and crystal orb chandeliers, warmed by a palette of sage green, teal and aged leather so every room feels collected rather than decorated.
An arrival that sets the tone
Guests arrive into a calm, marble-lined reception where the hotel name sits in brushed gold above a fluted stone desk. A graphic black-and-white stone floor draws the eye inward, panelled timber walls and a gilded mirror soften the geometry, and the light is kept low and warm so the welcome feels intimate rather than corporate.
A lobby built for lingering
The heart of the hotel is a double-height lounge crowned by a copper-and-crystal orb chandelier. Teal velvet settees and white occasional chairs gather on a faded patchwork rug, a gilded stag relief rises the full height of one marble wall, and tall sheers filter the daylight so the room glows morning to night. It is designed as a place to sit, not just pass through.
Suites that live like sitting rooms
Each suite opens with a proper living space rather than a token armchair. A deep button-tufted leather chesterfield anchors the room against sage-green wainscoting, a writing desk sits by the window, and a round table is dressed for room service or a quiet dinner in. Panelled headboard walls, patterned wallpaper, herringbone parquet and layered drapery keep the bedrooms soft and private.
Bathrooms in book-matched marble
The bathrooms are small set-pieces. Walls run in dramatic gold-veined marble, a blue-stone vanity floats on warm timber, vessel basins sit under antique-gold and matte-black fittings, and a black-and-white chevron floor adds a graphic note underfoot. Walk-in rainfall showers behind clear glass keep the rooms feeling open and bright.
