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Jimmy Mistry’s idea of luxury is ‘pampering’ at its best. Seated in a restaurant in his luxury adventure resort he tells us, “I want the bathroom flip flops in my hotel rooms to go missing because the guests were so much in love with them. That is how much I want to spoil them.”
Brought up in a humble space, Jimmy today owns a luxury resort in Lonavala. “It has been conceptualised with the intent to provide holistic recreation for the mind, body and soul in a luxurious milieu. Built on the pillars of design innovation, uniqueness and consistent quality, we are committed to setting benchmarks in the hospitality industry and becoming known for your commitment to value propositions within luxury stay destinations” says Mistry who is self-admittedly a designer first and architect later. “Design is about the surprise element. I want one to be taken aback by little installations or artworks in a space,” he adds.
That explains the mannequins in the washrooms at his hotel. “Not something you would expect now, is it?” It is this zeal for designing that bagged him prestigious projects such as transforming Vijay Mallya’s UB tower and designing villas at Sahara founder Subrata Roy’s Aamby Valley. “Subrata wanted one of the rooms to resemble a suite at Burj Dubai. So I spent a night at the hotel and delivered one that looked identical.”
One of Jimmy’s proudest structures includes the Della Tower in Mumbai- inspired by ancient Achaemenian design and style; a living exhibition of Persian architecture and the ancient Zoroastrian faith. Ask him if Howard Roark is his hero and he says, “I have my own heroes. I really look up to Thomas Heatherwick’s works. I’ve been lucky to host him in my house and he’s a friend now. He really inspires me,” he says about the English designer most popular for designing the Olympic cauldron.
But that’s not all. “I take ideas from my children too. I want them to learn to imagine and innovate. There’s only so much you can learn in school. You have to learn to think out of the box,” says Jimmy who has no formal education architectural design and was a mechanical engineering student instead.
Jimmy’s hotel is the first to have a permanent bungee jumping station in the country. But given his designer instincts, Jimmy wants to alter it. “I want to add psychedelic lights on the ground,” he says of what he has planned for his ventures in the future.