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Inside Cuba
Described by Christopher Columbus as "the loveliest land ever beheld by human eyes," Cuba's sumptuous landscapes are marked by sun-drenched tobacco and sugar cane fields and its cities ripe with music, dancing, and jubilation. Celebrating the relics of Cuba's revolutionary glory days, this book explores everything from the kinds of interiors seen in Buena Vista Social Club to top-notch luxury hotels and cultural heritage sites. Via a diverse selection of Cuban homes, hotels, gathering places, and more, Inside Cuba takes you on a colorful tour of Cuba's most archetypal interiors. Just mix up a Mojito, pop in a Compay Segundo CD, and fire up a cigar, and you'll be in the perfect mood to savor these luscious Cuban gems.
Highlights include:
traditional time-worn homes bearing the patina of generations of habitation
Modernist houses, including one by Richard Neutra, and artists' homes
Cuba's best eclectic 20th century mansions
a sugar baron's grandiose palacio
Partagas cigar factory, one of Havana's oldest and finest
the baroque building Palacio de los Capitanes Generales
the spectacular and futuristic Mario Girona-designed ice cream haven that is Havana's most popular hangout
a home with a Lalique-designed interior
the bars Ernest Hemingway frequented, the hotel where he stayed between 1932 and 1939, and the estate near Havana he purchased in 1940, where he wrote The Old Man and the Sea
Mafia casino hotels
Don Diego Velazquez's Moorish-influenced home where gold was once processed before being shipped to Spain.
Highlights include:
traditional time-worn homes bearing the patina of generations of habitation
Modernist houses, including one by Richard Neutra, and artists' homes
Cuba's best eclectic 20th century mansions
a sugar baron's grandiose palacio
Partagas cigar factory, one of Havana's oldest and finest
the baroque building Palacio de los Capitanes Generales
the spectacular and futuristic Mario Girona-designed ice cream haven that is Havana's most popular hangout
a home with a Lalique-designed interior
the bars Ernest Hemingway frequented, the hotel where he stayed between 1932 and 1939, and the estate near Havana he purchased in 1940, where he wrote The Old Man and the Sea
Mafia casino hotels
Don Diego Velazquez's Moorish-influenced home where gold was once processed before being shipped to Spain.
416 pages, Hardcover
Published March 1, 2006
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March 4, 2016
Vodić kroz kubanske domove, pokazuje Kubu koju vjerovatno nećete vidjet ni da odete tamo. Od raspadajućih stanova stare Havane preko nekadašnjih domova barona šećera i diplomatskih domova, kroz domove umjetnika do domova uzgajivača duhana, bez struje i tekuće vode otkriva ljepotu na svakom koraku. Informativno i prije svega jako lijepa knjiga.
June 13, 2007
I found this book on someone else's coffee table but it's one of the most gorgeous books I've ever seen on the (mostly decaying) architecture of Cuba
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