desirePlate 120 · Kolkata, India

Victoria Memorial Kolkata

A white marble palace of empire, now a museum of the country that outlived it.

1921 · William Emerson · Asia

The chamber score

Vatapi Ganapatim

Muthuswami Dikshitar · Carnatic

A temple's first word, in krithi.

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 memorial of Queen Victoria, Kolkata's most famous colonial monument.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct Victoria Memorial Kolkata through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Victoria Memorial Kolkata was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.