Jardin Creole II (Detail)

H Carre Hermes Paris > Spring - Summer 2001

In a setting of sugar-cane - the promise of exquisite rum - the West Indies proclaim freshness. A headdress of plaited palm leaves, gourds which become drinking bowls when halved, green coconuts sipped as a jelly, and also the bakoua, whose leaf is used to fashion the pointed hats of Martinique. The good life - poised between the Atlantic and the Caribbean: here we can idle all our time away on Tobago, St. Lucia ...