How often do your dreams look like a psychedelic colour party? For Anne Claire Gambette, the Paris-based multidisciplinary artist, designer, and art director of Hotel Costes, pretty often. And she has taken that dream straight into room 104 at The Kin, Mumbai, dressing it up in a palette of burgundy, cobalt blue, and lilac, with oversized eyes, playful patterns, and a bit of beautiful madness.
The room is a swatch of Gambette’s signature visual language. There’s a custom rug and wall hanging made in collaboration with Jaipur Rugs, digitally printed headboard and pillows, whimsical tarot cards, hologram stickers, silk eye masks, and journals—everything with oversized eye motifs and pops of colours. A burgundy waterfall coffee table with a lilac fringe sits next to a matching boxy armchair; Gambette, who is visiting India for the first time, is quick to point out that it’s a mini version of one she has created in Paris. “There is always a dimension of dream and psychedelic expression in my works. And a bedroom is the best place to dream, so this just fits in,” she says, urging me to look into a kaleidoscope shaped like a deformed disco ball placed on the table.
