Cast Away

The dining room in Agnew Hall House, one of the three homes available for rent at Moonhole.

On the Caribbean island of Bequia, Mustique’s quieter sister, a cliffside compound likened to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell offers a different kind of luxury

By Elena Clavarino

In 1961, Tom Johnston and his wife Gladys left their jobs writing soft-drink commercials in Chicago in exchange for a life in the tropics. They settled on Bequia, a seven-square-mile island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an archipelago in the southern Caribbean. Then, as now, Bequia had largely escaped mass tourism. Hunters still chased humpback whales using hand-thrown harpoons from traditional wooden sailboats. It was worlds away from the nearby Mustique, where sunburned billionaires such as Lawrence Stroll, the collector and Aston Martin Formula One team co-owner, rubbed shoulders with Mick Jagger and the Bernie Madoff associate Walter Noel. READ ON