desirePlate 124 · Mumbai, India

Gateway of India

A triumphal arch for a king who left, still the place Mumbai meets the sea.

1924 · George Wittet · Asia

The chamber score

Raga Bhimpalasi

Hindustani afternoon raga · Mumbai

An arch that watched an empire leave. The afternoon raga is the hour of departure.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The Indo-Saracenic arch on the Apollo Bunder, Mumbai's most famous monument.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Gateway of India through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Gateway of India was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.