PH Travel | Palm House

Poolside Getaway!

This house is a showstopper. Its interiors are the kinds that inspire decorators. The rooms are big and high and filled with light. This is high-octane, laidback African living, chic yet practical, comfortable yet perfectly poised in that tradition of European rooms that embrace the need for ceremonial and formality when they’re called for. It’s the kind of place that makes you feel at home – whether you’re a former state president invited for dinner or a daughter’s surfing friends invited for a weekend away from school. It’s an easy place to entertain in, but if you need to be alone, the bedroom suites are secluded and private. White-painted floors, creamy linen, crewel work curtains, antique furniture inlaid with ivory and tortoiseshell, painted screens, huge wicker baskets, heaps of books, towers of blue and white ceramics, those potted banana trees reaching up to the ceilings: Palm House is simple and handsome. Downstairs an enfilade of big, wide rooms unites the sitting room with, on one side, the kitchen-dining room.