desirePlate 135 · Medan, Indonesia

Istana Maimun

A Malay-Mughal-Italian palace, because a sultan of tobacco could afford every style.

1888 · Theodoor van Erp & Sultan Makmun · Asia

The chamber score

Gendhing Bonang Babar Layar

Javanese gamelan · Yogyakarta

Bronze circling a stone mandala.

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 palace of the Deli Sultanate, a landmark of Medan.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Istana Maimun through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Istana Maimun was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.