Mustique hotels collection

Moustique, the French called it, and the island has kept the name, less one letter. On the Atlantic side, Macaroni Beach takes the swell behind its reef; on the other, Britannia Bay shelters yachts in still water. The first houses on these scrub-covered slopes were entrusted to Oliver Messel, the stage designer, who drew them like sets seen from the sea: wooden colonnades and shutters, galleries open to the trade wind. On some walls he laid a bold yellow.