As the Turks and Caicos doesn't have its own design vernacular, the Palms' developers borrowed from Barbados, and particularly the homes that the British architect and theatricaldesigner Oliver Messel built there in the 1960s and '70s--one of the partners had grown up in Barbados and lived in a Messel house.
Like Annabel's, it takes up most of the basement, which has been transformed into a theatrical fantasy by Ozbek, the Turkish fashion designer and an old friend of Lucy's.