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"Island Classic\nPlantation house on Mustique tells a tale of symmetry and scale\nOn Mustique, Emma Burns, of Sibyl Colefax John Fowler, renovated a client's house that had originally been designed by the island's leading architect, Arne Hasselqvist, of Sweden. The formality of its front elevation, anchored by a central pediment, echoes Swedish classicism.\nIn the expansive living room, furnishings such as the buffet, console table, mirror and stool, all from Sibyl Colefax John Fowler, have elaborate carvings and the Swedish style's calming foggy-gray finish. The white lamps and the botanical engravings are likewise from the firm.\nAlso in the living room, below a pickled-wood ceiling, are custom-made oversize sofas and chairs, each with an off-white cotton slipcover. Like the three low tables topped with off-white dishes, the room's seating and all of its fabrics come from Sibyl Colefax John Fowler.\nThe living room's veranda, an area made for entertaining amid the site's cooling Atlantic breezes, has sconces by Hasselqvist and an ensemble of wicker sofas and chairs.\nAt the dining table, the palette receives an infusion of periwinkle. Manuel Canovas drapery fabric.\nThe master suite's carved and turned canopy bed, stool and bedside tables, all with a foggy-gray finish and placed atop a handmade off-white cotton rug, occupy one corner of a high-ceilinged space that interconnects with an anteroom, two dressing rooms and a bath.\nFrom the anteroom, with its custom-made demilune table, lamp and carved mirror, another corner of the master bedroom\u2014where the secretary is situated\u2014can be seen.\nThe children's bedroom. The peach fabric on the lampshade and on the beds is from Manuel Canovas.\nA short walk downhill from the main house is a balustraded terrace, an ideal setting from which to take in the beauty of the lagoon below. Because storms are not uncommon, its furnishings are portable\u2014wicker armchairs and a table with a wicker base and a glass top.\nFrom the living room's veranda, there are uninterrupted views of the property's infinity-edge swimming pool\u2014sited and designed to blend into the seascape\u2014and its unfilled-coral-stone terrace. As throughout, the plantings are by landscape architect Guy Walker."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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