"What a talented and fascinating gentleman Oliver Messel was. I love one of the googled stories I found that talked about his later career in the Caribbean and Barbados as an architect. The brief description ends with “One lasting legacy is that his preferred light sage green shade of paint, now known as “Messel Green’ by paint companies in the Caribbean, has been immortalized as many property owners choose this colour for its quintessential Caribbean-ness.”"
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