Mondays are when I typically post reviews on books, but I must admit that I got lost among the pages of Bunny Williams "A House By The Sea" and just finished reading it. I have been a long time admirer of Bunny's work, and I am a self-professed lover of the sea, so the combination of those two elements held me captive for much longer than I had planned.
Interior Designer Bunny Williams and her husband, Antiques Dealer,
John Rosselli built their home, named La Colina in the in the Dominican Republic. La Colina is a colonial villa along the Carribean sea, tucked away in lush tropical gardens. Bunny and John chose architect Ernesto Buch, a Cuban-born classicist who works between New Haven Connecticut and the Dominican Republic, to partner with them on this southern style raised cottage which borrows design details such as the roofline of the main house from Drayton Hall in Charleston, and oversized windows from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. Ernesto also designed Oscar de la Renta's home in the Punta Cana. Described by Gil Schafer III as a modern day Palladio, Ernesto was the perfect partner with Bunny and John on this house.
