of Rococo swirls and flourishes. This room would trump
anything experienced by, idealized by or realized by Proust
or any of his circle. It lingers as a rare reminder of that
period before the first Great War during which the world
revisited, often refining further, the best design elements of
the eighteenth century. In Pinto's scheme, what could be
ponderous, anachronistic, indeed, even un peu de trop, is
marvelous: it rages.
On a small Caribbean island, he roars. No tepid design revisit
of tried and true Caribbean colonial aesthetic for the manor
house pictured here. But rather, he employs an aesthetic
which fuses elements of global tropical origins, from Macao
to Cambodia and from Morocco to the Caribbean. Not a
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