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Great Houses of Havana

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By (author): Hermes Mallea

Great Houses of Havana is a beautifully illustrated presentation of the greatest residences of Havana, celebrating one hundred years of creativity, design, and style that made the city the Paris of the Caribbean, with full historical accounts of architects, designers, and famous residents.

Great Houses of Havana celebrates one hundred years of creativity, design, and style that made the city the Paris of the Caribbean.

For four hundred years, Havana was the center of Spanish trade in the western hemisphere. With the expansion of the sugar industry, independence from Spain, and North American investment, Havana became a city of great wealth, great style, and great houses in a vocabulary that was a unique amalgam of European, American, and Caribbean elements.

Great Houses of Havana traces the evolution of the Cuban home from the classic, Spanish colonial courtyard house to the Tropical Modernist villas of the 1950s - houses reflecting international architecture trends while remaining true to the Cuban tradition. Cubas social history is woven throughout the book.

Vintage photographs illustrate Havanas sophisticated lifestyle - the masked balls, yacht club picnics, and dynastic weddings of fashionable Cubans and their international guests. Popular cafes, hotels, theaters, and weekend resorts are also featured, creating a view of the privileged life inside the gated mansions of the citys grandest neighborhoods.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 2060g
  • Dimensions: 263 x 312mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Nov 2011
  • Publisher: Monacelli Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781580932882

About Hermes Mallea

Hermes Mallea is an architect and a partner in M(Group) a design firm based in New York. A longtime collector of vintage Cuban photographs and a member of a Cuban-American family Mr. Mallea has traveled to Cuba frequently to do research and to lecture on historic preservation.

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