Getting your own Picasso, this time on granite

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: contain cement,” advises Bansal.

A big-time user, Rajiv Saini today has a style book on terrazzo, much alive in almost all his new creations. “Today it is not the same 10 inch x 10 inch idea. It is more to do with personal or local touch,” says design consultant Rajiv Saini, whose projects include the Devi Garh palace at Udaipur. His experiments with terrazzo helped him give a new dimension to the hotel. “Like, the terrazzo was functional with right furniture used to highlight the patterns on the floor,” says the architect, who loves to try geometric patterns, adding, “and then there are experiments like terrazzo being tried in bathtubs, table tops and seatings in the garden, making terrazzo flexible and dependable.”

Though Delhi-based Jawahar Arora has known this all his life, he was reminded of it once again when an architect redeveloped his home. The latter showed a lot of appreciation for his old bathroom. The terrazzo done here in white cement was beautiful and tough to break down. “We were told not to change it. But, considering we were redoing the whole home, we went for another terrazzo. This time in black,” he says.