Holiday gift idea: An armchair transport to Colonial-era island homes
- December 15, 2009 15:45
Michael Connors, author of the new Caribbean Houses: History, Style, and Architecture (Rizzoli), provides an in-depth look at the beauty found in Colonial-era architecture and furnishings, a material culture built on the labor and skills of indigenous Amerindians and African West Indians and fusing stylistic elements from Romanesque to Classical. He is already at work on another volume, English Island Elegance, part of his well-received series, and is contracted for a book about historic Cuban houses ...