British West Indies Style: Antigua, Jamaica, Barbados, and Beyond

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Breathtaking photographs capture the history and unique design of the English island great houses, detailing the hardwood furniture, terraced gardens, walled courtyards, and interiors. Most likely essentially the most admired and influential of tropical styles, the English island style transformed residences into private paradises. British West Indies Style is a lavish account of the interiors, architecture, and way of life of the English colonial great houses and historic town houses within the Caribbean—from Antigua, Jamaica, Nevis, Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts, Mustique to the less-traveled islands of Bequia and Dominica. As regards to fifty private homes are featured, with unique collections of antique, indigenous, and colonial furniture: a southern plantation style scaled and refreshingly adapted to the airy, sunny climate of the Windward and Leeward Islands. Presenting a world rarely seen by visitors—the houses of the islands’ affluent planters, both historical and recent—the English island styles are elegant yet practical and accessible, giving ideas for using local materials, painting and stenciling techniques, environment-enhancing design, and indoor/outside living—all of which might be ubiquitous in recent interior design.

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