Svay Studio

Assagao, Goa

Mademoiselle — a boutique hotel

Gilt, velvet and deep-glazed tile — a boutique hotel where every room keeps its own character.

The hotel lit at dusk, its tiers of arched balconies stacked above the garden
Street frontage with the café behind glass, bougainvillea spilling from the balcony above
Black steel stair rising past an arched window in the white stairwell
Guest room with a rust upholstered headboard, coral cushions and towel swans
Guest room with an arched mirrored headboard, brass lamps and a green velvet chair
Scalloped grey headboard with teal cushions and a matching bed runner
Black arched four-poster frame over navy bedding, lit by a single pendant
Black four-poster bed dressed in blush and white against panelled walls
Scalloped headboard and navy throw in a panelled room with brass sconces
Balcony seating above the water, framed by bougainvillea and palms
Freestanding clawfoot bath set between planting under a slatted ceiling
Navy tiled bathroom with a gold arched mirror above the stone basin
Oxblood tiled bathroom with a gold arched mirror and terrazzo floor
Burgundy velvet chair and black bobbin table below a gilt mirror
Mint scalloped armchair on brass legs beneath a gilt mirror

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Location
Assagao, Goa
Completed
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Type
Hospitality — boutique hotel
Scope
Interiors & styling

Mademoiselle is a hotel that refuses to repeat itself. Behind a pale facade of stacked arched balconies, each room is given its own temperament — a rust headboard here, a scalloped grey one there, an arched black four-poster in the next — so that no two stays read quite the same.

The constants are the details. Gilt mirrors catch the light in every room; velvet armchairs in burgundy, mint and cream sit beside slim bobbin tables; brass sconces and single pendants do the work of overhead lighting. The bathrooms are where the studio lets go: floor-to-ceiling glazed tile in navy and oxblood, arched brass mirrors, stone basins on black steel, and one suite given over to a freestanding bath set among planting.

It is hospitality detailed like a home — generous with colour and texture, and built so that each guest remembers which room was theirs.