Carved Coastal Craftsmanship at the Bahamas’ Lyford Cay Club

On the western tip of New Providence, where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean, Lyford Cay Club has long occupied a particular place in the imagination of a certain kind of traveller — private, unhurried, and shaped by decades of accumulated taste. The club's landmark drawing room and public spaces were given new life under the direction of New York designer Tom Scheerer, a Bahamas habitué whose instinct for "restrained but richly layered" interiors proved perfectly suited to the club's coral-pink-and-white palette, hand-painted palm murals, and atmosphere of effortless, sun-bleached formality. A subsequent phase of the project brought Kentucky-based designer Matthew Carter — named one of Veranda's Next Legends in 2021 — into the collaboration, extending the scheme with his own signature blend of classic architecture and vivid, considered colour.

For this project, The Raj Company contributed a collection of carved coastal motif console tables and shell motif wall brackets, each made by hand and designed to sit naturally within the club's quietly tropical vocabulary. The shell and coastal references were resolved in carved wood with the kind of detail that rewards close attention — ornament used not as decoration for its own sake, but as a language the building itself already speaks. The result is furniture that feels entirely indigenous to its setting: as much a product of place as the sea glass and salt air beyond the windows.