Pic of the month – blocks of color

With Multi color patterns gaining importance in the fashion world, it only felt right to discuss colors in this month’s ” Pic of the month column”. This photograph of colored glass doors and windows is from the Mehrangarh Fort, in Jodhpur in Rajasthan. Such windows are commonly seen in a lot of palaces in Rajasthan, particularly in the Zenenna Mahal and Badi Mahal of the Udaipur Palace.
This particular complex is called the Phool Mahal palace or palace of flowers. This was supposedly a confidential meeting chamber built by Maharaja Abhay Singh. The ceiling is decorated with gold filigree and mirror work. The sunshine comes through these stained glasses doors and windows, lights up the gold in the room and imparts a magical appearance to the room – truly ones thats fit for Kings!

The Colored glasses are used in a mosaic pattern but in an organised geometrical format which sets it apart from the stain glasses domes and windows that you normally would see in palaces or churches. In my observation (I couldnt go close enough to touch them) colored glass squares are just insets in the wooden frames. Its the light that makes it look like a  stained glass mural. I will do a color palette on the same lines soon.

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