Malacca Style

This is not a book about culture and history, nor is it a book about architecture and design. This is not a travel guidebook.

This is a way to see Malacca differently through historic and community background, through craft old and new, through fine arts, and through architecture, through the legacy of the past and in the contemporary. Does Malacca have a style? Most probably not. Malacca has many styles, some contradicting each other, often next to each other, sometimes on top of each other. Does it matter? Malacca does not fit in a box, in a category, or in a style. Malacca is everywhere, Malacca is a mess, Malacca is where it is least expected.

It is an invitation to take a second look, to revisit a place too often (and maybe wrongly) viewed as well known. The adventure is born of the encounter between the one who likes to tell stories and the one who likes to look at life as it is, without frills. As the saying goes, a photo is worth a thousand words. It is a gift to the people of Malacca. it is a tribute to a disappearing world and to an emerging one. It is a modest contribution to debate on where Malacca has come from and where it is going. For the people of Malacca, from the people of Malacca, with the people of Malacca. Necessary homogeneity.

Publisher: The Lemongrass

Paperback

2014

ISBN: 9789671159316