It's a pilgrimage to Geoffrey Bawa's village house in Sri Lanka. This is Geoffrey Bawa's own lakeside estate, which he has used as his creative laboratory for 50 years (it was an abandoned English rubber plantation when he took over). He entered an architecture school in London at the age of 34 because he worked in gardens. 

He became an equally gifted landscape architect, paying attention to every element in his room, from branches to lamps, which led to a design style that was both sexy and simple, which was a design with elements. Geoffrey Bawa bolstered the original house and retained its terracotta roof. BAWA takes a pan-cultural approach to design and skillfully blends the old with the new. In the main dining room, potted palm trees tower over colonial antiques and modernist designs.

From the heart of the estate, turn to the south, and a wide swathe of green field, fringed by thickets, swells gently upwards to Cinnamon Hill. Beyond, the lake glimmers and draws the eye to the hills in the distance. Turn to the north, and a glorious azure sweep of water and sky swings into view. Here, the edge of the land falls away in a dramatic cliff to reveal a water garden filled with lilies and ornamental rice paddies.