Located on San Miguel Street in Centro Habana, this historic, three-story mansion stands next door to Cuba’s internationally famous pre-1959 music recording studio (known as EGREM after its nationalization in 1961). A couple for more than twenty years, Alberto, a mulatto from Bayamo, and Samuel, the illegitimate son of a Jewish accountant and a poor Spanish farm worker, became successful, self-taught artists in the 1990s. They then opened a casa particular [government licensed bed-and-breakfast]. Dedicated to weaving spectacular works of art with handmade ropes and natural dyes, Samuel’s three-dimensional sculptures still populate many of the bed-and-breakfast beautiful common spaces.
