INDIA HICKS PROPERTIES
The Bahamas
Harbour Island, The Bahamas:
The Guest House at Hibiscus Hill
Designed by India Hicks, daughter of famed British interior decorator David Hicks, and her partner David Flint Wood, the house was built in 1999 by local carpenters and craftsmen in the style of an old Caribbean plantation house set on the hill in a grove of coconut trees. The forty-foot long verandas overlook both the pink sand beach and the ocean to the east and the bay to the west.
The Cricket Pavilion at Hibiscus Hill
On the other side of the garden from The Guest House, The Cricket Pavilion is a 2,000 sq foot, studio style house. The outside is classical English architecture of the islands and based on an old club house that we found hidden away in the south of Eleuthera. With a long broad terrace, and its oblique view of the ocean, it is set back from a quiet track to the beach.
The house on King Street sits in the historic part of Dunmore Town, with views of the harbour, the sunset and the Fishermen’s Dock. It stands in a large walled garden with verandahs that are shaded by palm trees to the west, with an outdoor staircase and galleried terraces sheltered from the sun and the street by louvered panels.
Windermere Island, The Bahamas:
Reaching back toward the dawn of architecture for his inspiration David Hicks, Britain’s foremost interior designer of the 60’s and 70’s, brought an essence of the Nile Valley to this residence on the Bahamian Island of Eleuthera. His design alludes to the clean cubism of the temple of King Zoser. Tall, cool, and contemporary, it suggests, rather than imitates, its ancestor. Its glass-pierced outer simplicity is the direct expression of its inner reason for being, to provide a restful, mini-maintenance holiday sanctuary for escaping metropolitans.
