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Island Life: Inspirational Interiors | 
 enlarge | Authors: India Hicks, David Flint Wood
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 98453
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1584793171
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.097296
EAN: 9781584793175
ASIN: 1584793171
Publication Date: March 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new book - May have a remainder mark. SLIGHT SHELF WEAR ON DUST COVER AND TINY RIP ON HARDCOVER
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Product Description
It's the ultimate escape fantasy: Trade in the rat race for life on a tropical island and all the languid luxury that it evokes. For India Hicks and David Flint Wood, the dream became reality when, after high-profile careers-she as a fashion model, he as an advertising executive-the couple left the city behind for the Bahamas. Five years and three children later, the husband-and-wife team have impeccably restored three houses and one hotel. Fusing traditional European design with Asian, African, and Caribbean influences, the resulting interiors reflect their love of intense color and their keen sense of style-inherited on India's side from her father, the renown interior designer David Hicks, and further enhanced by the family's travels. In Island Life, the secrets of these sumptuous, unique homes-used as locations for Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, and Vogue magazine, among others-are revealed in intimate detail. With panoramic color photographs, David Loftus captures not only the eclectic combinations of antiques, flea market finds, and modern furnishings, but also the overall ambiance of the tropics. For those who share David and India's dream, this is where to start planning.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Never received...ordered 3 times!!! June 19, 2007
Sallie J. Wald (hawaii USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
You may or may not receive this book. Like another reviewer, my order was never completed. I ordered it THREE times, waited 6 weeks each time...and then was informed my order was cancelled because it was unavailable. The last time I ordered it, I called them and they "assured" me it was "IN STOCK". Later, I was notified it was unavailable once again. Its bizarre! Don't hold your breath waiting for this one. It may be a great book, but I will apparently never know.
 A book to take you away from everyday life January 2, 2007
Mr. Christopher Hughes (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book an absolute dream. The pictures are superb and the text is so unpretentious and simple. I loved the way the family has created such a simple and beautiful house (or houses) unlike so many of the gaudy mansions of the rich that inhabit the Bahamas.
I have visited Harbor Island and the lifestyle appears so slow and easy that it really appears to be a paradise. India points out though that there is a price to be paid. The climate does make it difficult to maintain property.
In summary, I loved the book, the words and the pictures and I read it from cover to cover in a little under two days. It left we wanting a simpler, more balanced life and sunshine!
A Favorite July 30, 2006
Katherine Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I find myself reaching for this book over and over again. In it the authors generously give us a glimpse of the life they have made on a small island in the Bahamas. With a lot of hard work and no pretension, they have gotten it mostly just right. Their houses are neither overdone nor underdone, but pleasing to the eye, soothing and liveable. Highly recommended.
Never got item - it was unavailable July 30, 2006
beach reader (Massachusetts)
1 out of 12 found this review helpful
Never got item - waited several weeks and then was notified.
 Nice to look at....PERIOD June 26, 2004
azure (CARIBBEAN)
26 out of 33 found this review helpful
The cover was very appealing. First impressions etc;. The inside photos even more so. The writing however sounded like the ramblings of a spoiled child living in an unreachable reality sometimes and at other times, the snobbery of an aristocracy only appreciated in the mind of the writer and those who really believe that paradise can only be created by the writer. I live in the Bahamas and so yes I have a paradise of my own, but does anyone really care about 'my personal paradise' so much that they would read about it. I think not. The thing that makes simple beauty, well simply beautiful is simply leaving it alone. Final thot; Nice to look at.....PERIOD. other books I own - CARIBBEAN STYLE; CARIBBEAN ELEGANCE; ISLAND STYLE.
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