The Private World of Lyford Cay
The interior designer Tom Scheerer, of New York, has spent some seven years refreshing the venerable Lyford Cay Club in the Bahamas. His new lobby, dining tent, cottages, yacht club, and what's called the Little Club are are seen for the first time in the pages of Town & Country Magazine. The Lyford style was very particular. Lyford was originally decorated by Lady Ann Orr-Lewis. E.P. Taylor, who founded the place in 1963, had a very grand vision. The idea that you could have a drawing room of this proportion in the Bahamas was just unheard of at the time. Mill Reef, in Antigua, and the other clubs were done on a much smaller scale. First impressions: Pickled "cypress" wallpaper, a dramatic corner mirror, and a fig leaf sofa in the entrance hall. The original decorating was very much the way you did things back then, lots of white, McGuire furniture, Chinese Chippendale, and palm tree motifs. The Drawing Room They call it the Living Room...