中文简介：

《岛国风情》是首本探讨Henry Melich（1924-1999）作品的书，他是一位出生于捷克的建筑师，将新古典主义的诱人形式带到了加勒比地区。虽然Melich在美国和英国建造了一些项目，但他在20世纪60年代和70年代在巴哈马的莱福德岛、港湾岛和温德米尔岛等阳光明媚的岛屿上设计的浪漫小屋令人难忘。Melich用一种轻柔的奇思妙想和分离的宁静感，创造了一种浪漫的逃逸感。他的标志性主题包括人造大理石墙面、坚硬的木材、柱廊和带有条纹天花板的帐篷式内饰，非常适合当时的俏皮风格，摄影师Slim Aarons用温暖的镜头捕捉了这些主题和许多以前未发表的内饰新照片，并在《岛国风情》中展示。藤架上挂满绿植的花园、爬满常春藤的凹室、棕榈树林立的小巷，这些只是将建筑延伸到热带景观中的一些特色。《岛国风情》展示了Melich的40多个海岛项目，捕捉了一个充满魅力和过往荣耀的世界，相信会给室内设计和海岛度假爱好者带来灵感。

英文简介：

Island Follies is the first book to explore the work of Henry Melich (1924-1999), a Czech-born architect who brought a beguiling form of neoclassicism to the Caribbean. While Melich built projects in the United States and England, he s best remembered for the romantic follies he designed in the 1960s and 1970s in sunny island retreats like Lyford Cay, Harbour Island, and Windermere Island in the Bahamas. Melich created a romantic sense of escape with a softly cushioned whimsy and discrete sense of tranquillity. His signature motifs included faux marbled walls, seasoned wood, colonnades and tent-like interiors with striped ceilings that suited the playful mood of the moment, documented in Island Follies with the warm touch of Slim Aarons and with new photography of many previously unpublished interiors. Gardens with Bougainvillea-draped pergolas, ivy-clad alcoves, palm-lined allees are just some of the other features that extended the architecture into the tropical landscape. Island Follies showcases more than forty of Melich s island projects, capturing a lost world of glamor and faded glory certain to inspire lovers of interior design and island retreats alike.