Hautebed Of Luxury

ITC Royal Bengal, Kolkata

If the ITC Royal Bengal was a person, it would embody the values of a true-blue Bengali bhadralok--a world traveller with an eclectic taste in books, a foreign degree but well-versed in Bengali culture, who would appreciate Baul music in the same breath as Bach and the Beatles and who would love poetry as much as Nash’s Game Theory. In short, a citizen of the world. The architecture marries the finest of European and indigenous architecture with elements of erstwhile stately homes (Bonedi Bari), regal palaces of the Nawabs and churches of Bengal with a contemporarydesign vocabulary. From the classic Greco-Roman façade with its Horse