Description
Great Homes of Havana celebrates 100 years of creativity, layout, and magnificence that made the town “the Paris of the Caribbean.” For 400 years, Havana was once the middle of Spanish business within the western hemisphere. With the growth of the sugar trade, independence from Spain, and North American funding, Havana turned into a town of significant wealth, nice taste, and nice Homes in a vocabulary that was once a singular amalgam of Ecu, American, and Caribbean parts.
Great Homes of Havana strains the evolution of the Cuban house from the vintage, Spanish colonial courtyard space to the “Tropical Modernist” villas of the Nineteen Fifties—Homes reflecting global structure tendencies even as closing real to the Cuban custom.
Cuba’s social historical past is woven all the way through the guide. Antique pictures illustrate Havana’s refined way of life—the masked balls, yacht membership picnics, and dynastic weddings of stylish Cubans and their global visitors. Widespread cafes, lodges, theaters, and weekend motels also are featured, making a view of the privileged lifestyles throughout the gated mansions of the town’s grandest neighborhoods.
