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Bowie sold the estate for $5m dollars to business tycoon and poet [[Felix Dennis]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11467486/Inside-David-Bowies-impossibly-glamorous-holiday-home.html|title=Inside David Bowie's holiday home|date=11 January 2016|work=Telegraph|first=Christopher|last=Middleton}}</ref> Felix Dennis renamed the villa as ''Mandalay''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/you-can-now-rent-david-bowie-s-mustique-villa-for-40-000-a-week|title=You Can Now Rent David Bowie’s Mustique Villa for $40,000 a Week|date=1 November 2016|work=Telegraph|first=Nikki|last=Ekstein}}</ref>
Bowie sold the estate for $5m dollars to business tycoon and poet [[Felix Dennis]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11467486/Inside-David-Bowies-impossibly-glamorous-holiday-home.html|title=Inside David Bowie's holiday home|date=11 January 2016|work=Telegraph|first=Christopher|last=Middleton}}</ref> Felix Dennis renamed the villa as ''Mandalay''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/you-can-now-rent-david-bowie-s-mustique-villa-for-40-000-a-week|title=You Can Now Rent David Bowie’s Mustique Villa for $40,000 a Week|date=1 November 2016|work=Telegraph|first=Nikki|last=Ekstein}}</ref>


Dennis was keen to preserve the villa as Bowie had intended<ref name ="Brown">{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/mandalay-mustique-david-bowies-holiday-home-for-rent/|title=Inside Mandalay, David Bowie's magical Mustique holiday home |date=9 September 2016|work=[[the Daily Telegraph]]|first=Mick|last=Brown}}</ref> and through the years added numerous details reflecting his own style.
Dennis was keen to preserve the villa as Bowie had intended<ref name ="Brown">{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/mandalay-mustique-david-bowies-holiday-home-for-rent/|title=Inside Mandalay, David Bowie's magical Mustique holiday home |date=9 September 2016|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|first=Mick|last=Brown}}</ref> and through the years added numerous details reflecting his own style.


Dennis began writing poetry in 1999<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/felix-dennis|title=About Felix Dennis |work=Poetry Archive|first=Tom|last=Wolfe}}</ref> after a bout of illness and wrote "Island Dreams" – 99 poems from Mustique<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felixdennis.com/Poet/185/Island+of+Dreams|title=Island of Dreams |work=Felix Dennis}}</ref> with the Laughing Buddha being used on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''Poetry Please'' in May 2015.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tbxk2|title=Poetry Please |work=BBC Radio 4}}</ref>
Dennis began writing poetry in 1999<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/felix-dennis|title=About Felix Dennis |work=Poetry Archive|first=Tom|last=Wolfe}}</ref> after a bout of illness and wrote "Island Dreams" – 99 poems from Mustique<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.felixdennis.com/Poet/185/Island+of+Dreams|title=Island of Dreams |work=Felix Dennis}}</ref> with the Laughing Buddha being used on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''Poetry Please'' in May 2015.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tbxk2|title=Poetry Please |work=BBC Radio 4}}</ref>
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==Present day==
==Present day==


After the death of Felix Dennis<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/23/felix-dennis|title=Felix Dennis obituary |date=23 June 2014|work=The Guardian|first=Marsha|last=Rowe}}</ref> in June 2014, the Mandalay Estate was put up for sale and sold to entrepreneur [[Simon Dolan]]. There have been numerous press articles stating that the estate is now available to rent for the first time ever,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/03/25/david-bowies-20-million-caribbean-home-is-for-rent/|title=Can’t afford $20 million for David Bowie’s Caribbean house? Now you can rent it instead|date=25 March 2016|work=Lonely Planet|first=Roisin|last=Agnew}}</ref> for a reported $40,000 per week.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/you-can-now-rent-david-bowie-s-mustique-villa-for-40-000-a-week|title=You Can Now Rent David Bowie’s Mustique Villa for $40,000 a Week|date=1 November 2016|work=Bloomberg|first=Nikki|last=Ekstein}}</ref> The villa has five bedrooms including one in what was once David Bowie's recording studio and another in the Writers Cottage where Felix Dennis wrote his poetry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/mandalay-mustique-david-bowies-holiday-home-for-rent/|title=Inside Mandalay, David Bowie's magical Mustique holiday home|date=9 September 2016|work=Telegraph|first=Mick|last=Brown}}</ref>
After the death of Felix Dennis<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/23/felix-dennis|title=Felix Dennis obituary |date=23 June 2014|work=The Guardian|first=Marsha|last=Rowe}}</ref> in June 2014, the Mandalay Estate was put up for sale and sold to entrepreneur [[Simon Dolan]]. There have been numerous press articles stating that the estate is now available to rent for the first time ever,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/03/25/david-bowies-20-million-caribbean-home-is-for-rent/|title=Can’t afford $20 million for David Bowie’s Caribbean house? Now you can rent it instead|date=25 March 2016|work=Lonely Planet|first=Roisin|last=Agnew}}</ref> for a reported $40,000 per week.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/you-can-now-rent-david-bowie-s-mustique-villa-for-40-000-a-week|title=You Can Now Rent David Bowie’s Mustique Villa for $40,000 a Week|date=1 November 2016|work=Bloomberg|first=Nikki|last=Ekstein}}</ref> The villa has five bedrooms including one in what was once David Bowie's recording studio and another in the Writers Cottage where Felix Dennis wrote his poetry.<ref name ="Brown"/>


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 17:48, 15 April 2020

The Mandalay Estate is a 6.2 acres (2.5 ha), Balinese-style villa perched on the hills above Britannia Bay on the island of Mustique[1] in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The island

Lord Glenconner,[2] formerly 3rd Baron Glenconner Colin Tennant, bought the island in 1958 and created the idyllic destination of Mustique.[3] In 1960 media attention rose when Lord Glenconner presented land to Princess Margaret as a wedding gift.[4]

David Bowie

Britania Bay House,[5] as it was originally named,[6] was built for the British rock legend David Bowie in 1989 in collaboration with architect[7] Arne Hasselqvist [8] and New York designer Robert Litwiller.[9] Bowie craved a property on the picturesque Caribbean island that was far away from the expected, in fact he stated “I wanted something as unlike the Caribbean as possible”.[10]

At the centre of the villa is a koi pond with waterfalls and an infinity pool, surrounded by a series of Balinese pavilions. Bowie was fond of the villa's layout saying “The thing about Mandalay is that it is broken up into little areas that you can get lost in”. Bowie spent much time at his unique home on the island, attributing his lack of being able to work there to the outstanding views from the villa, explaining “The house is such a tranquil place that I have absolutely no motivation to write things when I’m there”.[11]

Felix Dennis

Bowie sold the estate for $5m dollars to business tycoon and poet Felix Dennis in 1994.[12] Felix Dennis renamed the villa as Mandalay.[13]

Dennis was keen to preserve the villa as Bowie had intended[14] and through the years added numerous details reflecting his own style.

Dennis began writing poetry in 1999[15] after a bout of illness and wrote "Island Dreams" – 99 poems from Mustique[16] with the Laughing Buddha being used on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please in May 2015.[17]

Felix Dennis spent five months of the year on the island and wrote some of his most popular poetry whilst owning the Mandalay Estate.[18] Inspired by the scene as the sun goes down from Mandalay, Dennis wrote:[19]

"A ball of fire is spilling in the sea
The empty sky flamingo-pink and grey
Cicada songs creak out the end of day
A choir of tree-frogs whistle: 'Come to me!'"

Dennis worked with the government of St Vincent and the Grenadines to give each of the 12,500 secondary school children a laptop in 2014.[20]

Present day

After the death of Felix Dennis[21] in June 2014, the Mandalay Estate was put up for sale and sold to entrepreneur Simon Dolan. There have been numerous press articles stating that the estate is now available to rent for the first time ever,[22] for a reported $40,000 per week.[23] The villa has five bedrooms including one in what was once David Bowie's recording studio and another in the Writers Cottage where Felix Dennis wrote his poetry.[14]

References

  1. ^ Costas, Kari (23 March 2016). "David Bowie's Mustique Villa for rent". Elle Decor.
  2. ^ Crowley, Andrew (29 August 2010). "Lord Glenconner obituary". The Daily Telegraph.
  3. ^ Haslam, Nicky (3 November 2012). "The Wordling's Pleasure". The Spectator.
  4. ^ "Mustique". Historic Royal Places.
  5. ^ Buckley, Christopher (31 August 1992). "David Bowie's House on the Island of Mustique". Architectural Digest.
  6. ^ Ekstein, Nikki (1 November 2016). "You can now rent David Bowie's Mustique villa for $40,000 a week". Bloomberg.
  7. ^ Buckley, Christopher (31 August 1992). "David Bowie's House on the Island of Mustique". Architectural Digest.
  8. ^ "Arne Hasselqvist; Architect Created Celebrity Homes". LA Times. 17 February 2001.
  9. ^ Ramzi, Lilah (13 January 2016). "Fantasy Island: David Bowie and Iman's Former Mustique Retreat for Sale". Vogue.
  10. ^ Middleton, Christopher (11 January 2016). "Inside David Bowie's holiday home". The Telegraph.
  11. ^ Buckley, Christopher (31 August 1992). "David Bowie's House on the Island of Mustique". Architectural Digest.
  12. ^ Middleton, Christopher (11 January 2016). "Inside David Bowie's holiday home". Telegraph.
  13. ^ Ekstein, Nikki (1 November 2016). "You Can Now Rent David Bowie's Mustique Villa for $40,000 a Week". Telegraph.
  14. ^ a b Brown, Mick (9 September 2016). "Inside Mandalay, David Bowie's magical Mustique holiday home". The Daily Telegraph.
  15. ^ Wolfe, Tom. "About Felix Dennis". Poetry Archive.
  16. ^ "Island of Dreams". Felix Dennis.
  17. ^ "Poetry Please". BBC Radio 4.
  18. ^ Burrell, Ian (7 April 2014). "The millionaire and the island nation:Eccentric mogul Felix Dennis to buy one laptop for every child in St Vincent and the Grenadines". The Independent.
  19. ^ Dennis, Felix. "Sunset, Mustique".
  20. ^ Burrell, Ian (7 April 2014). "The millionaire and the island nation: Eccentric mogul Felix Dennis to buy one laptop for every child in St Vincent and the Grenadines". The Independent.
  21. ^ Rowe, Marsha (23 June 2014). "Felix Dennis obituary". The Guardian.
  22. ^ Agnew, Roisin (25 March 2016). "Can't afford $20 million for David Bowie's Caribbean house? Now you can rent it instead". Lonely Planet.
  23. ^ Ekstein, Nikki (1 November 2016). "You Can Now Rent David Bowie's Mustique Villa for $40,000 a Week". Bloomberg.

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