Retreat gallery — Mitti Ki Baat · Lumière Bakestudio

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The blue-shuttered mountain house at The Nook, framed by treesDeodar forest opening onto a meadow in Sainj ValleyA guest centring clay on the wheel in a Lumière apronA double room at The Nook, log bed under the wood-panelled ceilingThe whole group painting together around the long dining tableThe Sainj river running below the village, prayer flags on the ridgeA guest smiling with the clay piece she just carved in the glass verandahThe green-timbered village café down the path from The NookThe attic loft at The Nook, mattresses laid out under the tin roofLeaves and wildflowers foraged on the walk, laid out on canvasTwo guests holding up the mug they threw, hands still covered in clayA stone path through the corn fields on the morning walkA clay camera held up in front of the blue mountain houseThe bunk room at The Nook, log beds made up in sea-green linenCamellias in bloom against the mountains at duskTwo guests outside the blue-windowed Himachali house at The NookHand-stamped clay name tags drying under a paper lampMountains and cloud seen through the pines above the valleyFour hands on the wheel together, learning to pull a bowlMorning light through sheer curtains in the double room at The NookA pressed flora and fauna journal spread from the Sainj retreatHarshita on the forest trail among the deodarsEvening in the verandah under the macramé chandelierGuests hand-building around a long table in the glass verandahTwo guests carving a slab of clay together at the work tableHarshita in the garden at The Nook, holding a pomegranate flowerFinished pieces wrapped and packed to carry homeA hand-painted fish mobile hanging in the verandah while guests paintA guest holding up his finished clay camera in the sunroom