Escape will appeal to readers interested in fashion and photography, social history and travel, architecture and design, in the manner of Hotel Il Pellicano, Doris Duke's Shangri-la, and C. Z. Guest: American Style Icon.

Escape is a celebration of the twentieth-century jet-setting lifestyle in the warm-weather destinations of the Caribbean and Florida--from the great estates of ambitious patrons to the most exclusive resorts of the mid-twentieth century--in a spectacular photographic presentation that chronicles its glamour and appeals to the nostalgia for it.

About The Author

Hermes Mallea is an architect and a partner in M(Group), a design firm based in New York. Mr. Mallea studied at the University of Miami's School of Architecture and Columbia University's graduate school of Historic Preservation and is a member of the American Institute of Architects. He is the author of Great Houses of Havana.