Bahia Manteca, as Montego Bay was known under most of its era of Spanish rule (1494 – 1655), translates, in English, to Butter Bay. It was here that our team found such extraordinary inspiration in the hillside resorts and great houses along its coastline. Thus, as tribute to the people and history of this beautiful place, we chose the name Butterbay Hill for this collection.
Butterbay Hill was designed to reflect a kaleidoscopic view of Jamaica: from the Jamaican Georgian architecture of its 18th and 19th century great houses to the 20th century resorts that came into vogue as agriculture gave way to mining and then tourism. The end result is an aesthetic that we referred to as Jamaican eclectic where, standing on the shoulders of its British West Indies roots, is a collection that toggles back and forth between the sophisticated restraint of clean, contemporary design and the rollicking era of 1950’s and 1960’s Caribbean glamour that made Jamaica the type of place where photographer Slim Aarons, as he put it, would spend time photographing “attractive people in attractive places doing attractive things”.
Butterbay Hill Collection Video