Dil Pazir, Warden road, Breach Candy.
‘’Art Deco buildings also played with asymmetrical façade compositions. In Dil Pazir the rounded corner windows on the left side of the building are not replicated on the right. Likewise the projecting curving balconies are only on the right
side and not symmetrically on both sides. Rectilinear corner sunshades or eyebrows mark the left corner of the elevation.’’ Vandana Baweja, Associate Prof., School of Architecture, Univ. of
Vijaya Pratap in The New Indian Express - “I stayed at Dil Pazir in Breach Candy area,
a palatial Parsi house with an old- world charm: round balconies, white painted wooden French doors fitted with long and high bolts, typical of that period, huge bedrooms attached with equally ample bathrooms, spacious corridors, luxurious halls etc.
Every time I stepped out and in, I admired the Carrara marble pillars and the chandeliers at the entrance.”
Salman Rushdie in Quichotte. “Backwards up the nameless but now named lane he went, passed the apartment building where the Smile family once lived,
called Dil Pazir, which is to say, acceptable to the heart….”
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