The upper terrace is an entertaining space. Shelagh is very keen on a Moroccan fountain. There are Portuguese fountain styles that would be more locally appropriate. But the moors were in Spain and Portugal for hundreds of years so that style is also historically appropriate, although they were thrown out and their culture erased, then it remained a staunchly catholic culture. We are bending the West Indies "style story" quite a bit by including Moorish design. But the period of the West Indies included pottery from China, artifacts from India, England, Europe, and the "Orient" (the Middle East). Another point about style is that the building and the village itself is a pastiche, pseudo mediterranean, cartoon of a European village. So there is no staunch style criteria to adhere to. I can guess that some ship captain owned a Moroccan fountain in his "fictitious" house on Madeira. Now the brief is stretched to "West Indies / Mediterranean."
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| A target style for a terrace fountain. |
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| We've added a couple of pigmy date palms in clay jars. |
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