“In St. Barths, they’ve turned their island into Saint-Tropez,” the musician Bryan Adams says. “Here, it’s the opposite. We have a little boutique, a little restaurant. That’s the whole idea.” Adams lives in a wind-lashed stone villa once owned by the Venezuelan tycoon Hans Neumann and designed by the British set decorator Oliver Messel, who had a major second act as the creator of a Caribbean colonial style of architecture, on stunning display here and on Barbados. On a hill above an isthmus, Adams grows his own pineapples, papayas, avocados, and pumpkins. He is a passionate preservationist and has been involved in the restoration of the island’s coral reefs. “We’re the most environmentally forward island in the Caribbean,” he says.

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“People will visit Mustique for the first time and meet people at this cocktail night, then have them over for dinner or drinks at their villa,” he [Rupert Spurgeon, commercial director for the Mustique Company] explains. “They may never have met before, but they form these lasting friendships and come back year after year, renewing those connections.” Over the past 20 years, Mustique’s party island reputation has matured into more of a family affair, with homeowners’ second and third generations coming back with their children. “The prime reason why people come here is the sense of community,” adds Spurgeon. “That, and security.”

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