Painting at the Taj Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad.

Groovy chandeliers at the Tanjong Beach Club in Singapore on Sentosa Island.

Design notes: Lips and loops at the newly reinvented Café Opera at the InterContinental Sydney.

Design: Shots of the wonderfully creative lobby at Klapsons Hotel in Singapore.

Spotted in the Wanderlust hotel in Singapore: a sofa with a typewriter theme in a guest room; a wall in the lobby made colorful with product labels from the surrounding Little India neighborhood shops. No two rooms are the same in this wonderfully quirky property.

Mechanical antiquities spotted in the new 10 Scotts restaurant in the Grand Hyatt Singapore.

A boat-shaped bed, a tribal-ish tapestry, a horned skull, and a blue-Buddha painting. Spotted at Amatoa Resort in Bira village, on the island of Sulawesi.

Old Javanese wall art spotted in Losari Spa Retreat and Coffee Plantation’s club house (Magelang, central Java)

Lovely use of wood beams and wood-block art in Balinese restaurant Le Seminyak in Jakarta

We spotted this intriguing Papua wall art in Yougwa restaurant in Jakarta. Love its bold primitive feel.