Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour - Hardcover

by Hermes Mallea (Author)

Escape will appeal to readers interested in fashion and photography, social history and travel, architecture and design, in the manner of Hotel Il Pellicano, Doris Duke's Shangri-la, and C. Z. Guest: American Style Icon.

Escape is a celebration of the twentieth-century jet-setting lifestyle in the warm-weather destinations of the Caribbean and Florida--from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the most exclusive resorts of the mid-twentieth century--in a spectacular photographic presentation that chronicles its glamour and appeals to the nostalgia for it.

Author Biography

Hermes Mallea is an architect and a partner in M(Group), a design firm based in New York. Mr. Mallea studied at the University of Miami's School of Architecture and Columbia University's graduate school of Historic Preservation and is a member of the American Institute of Architects. He is the author of Great Houses of Havana.