Kohler Magazine

India's capital is a city with two spirits: one embodied by its glittering malls and spiffy metros, and another, secreted in its centuries-old forts and temples and bazaars. Steeped in history, but with a refreshingly modern edge, New Delhi's hues and mores reflect a truly 'glocal' avatar.

In the Indian state of Rajasthan, where imperial palaces, centuries-old forts and storybook landscapes belong in as equal a spirit as the cattle that reign the gullies, a 14th-century fort masquerades as a majestic modern-day resort. Once owned by a Rajasthani royal family, the Six Senses Barwara is composed of two palaces and two temples, and underscored by sumptuous details that hold a mirror, equally, to the citadel's kingly past and Six Senses's time-served sustainable luxury ethos.