Gianni Francione

The New Bali Style A Fresh Approach The "Bah style" of architecture and interior design is renowned and increasingly popular the world over. How it came into being is a story of cross-cultural legacy and an amalgamation of different design elements. In this chapter, we explain the connection...

IntroductionToward the end of the 1920s, along the sun-dappled southern coast of the island then known as Ceylon, a European aristocrat experienced a moment of intense personal revelation. It was not Count de Mauny-Talvande's first trip to Ceylon. That had been in 1912, when he came as a guest of...

The New Bali Style A Fresh Approach The "Bali style" of architecture and interior design is renowned and increasingly popular the world over. How it came into being is a story of cross-cultural legacy and an amalgamation of different design elements. In this chapter, we explain the connection...