{"id":848846,"date":"2026-08-09T06:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848846\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T06:52:24","slug":"this-kerala-home-brings-an-ancient-legend-to-life-for-two-sisters-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848846\/","title":{"rendered":"This Kerala home brings an ancient legend to life for two sisters and their families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Architect Amrutha Kishor of Elemental isn\u2019t one to believe in folklore\u2014but if her latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.in\/story\/this-kerala-home-is-inspired-by-the-works-of-jean-francois-millet-studio-arch-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kerala<\/a> home project taught her anything, it is to rethink where myth ends and meaning begins. \u201cDuring our first meeting, our clients had an interesting story to tell,\u201d Kishor recalls, referring to sisters Rekha Utham, based in Bahrain, and Renu Krishnadas, based in Dubai, along with their respective husbands and children. \u201cThe scope of work was not merely to design a holiday home on their ancestral land where their families could gather, but to create a space deeply rooted in tradition and legacy\u2014one that preserves a story etched into the heart of North Malabar for centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Architecture Building Hotel and Resort\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/19-min.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jali walls and locally quarried laterite blocks form the bungalow\u2019s cool shell, while double-layered clay tiles and uncoated Mangalore roofing shield it from Kerala\u2019s torrential rains.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Sebastian Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architect Amrutha Kishor of Elemental isn\u2019t one to believe in folklore\u2014but if her latest Kerala home project taught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,192907,411736,87718],"class_list":["post-848846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-holiday-home","tag-kerala-homes","tag-villa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}