Havana homes

Interiors in the Caribbean capital city

Celebrating the relics of Cuba’s revolutionary glory days, this book explores everything from the kinds of interiors seen in Buena Vista Social Club to top-notch luxury hotels and cultural heritage sites. Via a diverse selection of Havana homes, hotels, gathering places, and more, Inside Havana takes you deep into the heart of the city.

Highlights include:

traditional time-worn homes bearing the patina of generations of habitation

Modernist houses—including one by Richard Neutra—and artists’ homes

Cuba’s best eclectic 20th century mansions

Partagás cigar factory, one of Havana’s oldest and finest

the baroque building Palacio de los Capitanes Generales

the spectacular and futuristic Mario Girona-designed ice cream haven that is Havana’s most popular hangout

the bars Ernest Hemingway frequented, the hotel where he stayed between 1932 and 1939, and the estate near Havana he purchased in 1940, where he wrote The Old Man and the Sea

Mafia casino hotels

"An intimate stare into both antique and contemporary buildings that tell the stories of Cuban society, culture and industry."

—Trace, New York

Julio César Pérez Hernández, Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design 2001-2002 and adjunct professor at the School of Architecture in Havana, has lectured widely in the US and Europe about Cuban architecture. He is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and the recipient of several international and national awards. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Arquitectura Cuba and Arquitectura y Urbanismo.

The editor:

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN from 1987 to 2010, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle.