After we first featured Espanyolet, the Mallorca-based mission of Thomas Bossert and Melissa Rosenbauer, the yr was 2016 and the duo had give up their jobs in New York, bought their belongings, and launched into an Eat, Pray, Love-esque yr of journey through which they ended up finding out, and falling in love with, pure pigments—and Spain.
Quite a bit has modified since that first submit (Vintage Spanish Drap Fabric Made New: Espanyolet in Mallorca), together with Espanyolet itself. “After we began with our textile merchandise, colour and texture have been all the time extraordinarily necessary to us,” Thomas wrote to us just lately from Spain. “Quickly we began experimenting with different surfaces that would characterize the identical colour/texture philosophy. That’s after we began with lime partitions, ceramic objects, and furnishings. After we couldn’t do it ourselves we tried to seek out different makers and artisans that would collaborate with us. Our shoppers noticed what we have been experimenting with and shortly requested us to assist them with the design of total rooms and later homes.”
Now the duo designs full-fledged interiors tasks—and their very own pigmented textiles and limewashes make appearances, too. “Our merchandise are solely accessible to our inside design shoppers,” Thomas provides. “It’s a part of our particular sauce.”
Take a look round certainly one of Espanyolet’s latest tasks: a historic Catalan farmhouse, redone. (Then scroll down for a have a look at the drastic Earlier than pictures.)
Images by Pernilla Danielsson, courtesy of Espanyolet.
After
Above: The home is an previous conventional farmhouse on Mallorca, a vacation escape for the homeowners, who’re primarily based in Barcelona. They discovered Espanyolet by means of “the magic of Instagram,” Thomas writes. “They discovered us on-line and really a lot preferred our trendy Mediterranean type. They have been certainly one of our first inside design shoppers and put loads of belief in us, serving to them with your entire home.”Above: The home had suffered by means of a number of less-than-ideal renovations “within the Sixties, ’70s, or ’80s,” Thomas and Melissa surmise, “which left it feeling fragmented and never united. Bizarre steps up and peculiar steps down between rooms that ought to have flowed higher.” A lot of Espanyolet’s course of concerned stripping the farmhouse again to the unique components—together with digging the flooring all the way down to “their grime origins” and, after a lot thought, changing them with microcement for visible ease.Above: “After we first noticed the home, we liked all the unique, conventional components, just like the vaulted brick ceilings, stone stairs, and stone frames of the doorways,” Thomas writes. “We needed to honor these whereas infusing a extra trendy and modern aptitude. That’s the place the thought of microcement flooring got here from, in addition to the chrome steel kitchen and the picket flooring upstairs.” The chrome steel kitchen (certainly one of our tendencies for 2024) is by Santos.Above: The unique stone ceiling arches above the cookspace.Above: Although it seems authentic, the duo constructed the built-in “couch de obra” anew and layered it with “lovely classic linen, un-dyed.”Above: A pair of leather-based sling chairs, from Out of date, in a sitting space.Above: Spherical jute rugs—discovered at a close-by store—echo the home’s curves.
Above: The stone stairs are authentic; the lighting all through is by Comprise Studio. “The home was actually darkish, and the earlier renovations had left wires hanging all around the vaulted ceilings and stonework,” the duo writes. “Along with beautiful hanging ceiling lamps, we needed to introduce many sconces to focus on these arches and vaults. So we had an eye fixed on operate, however we additionally had an eye fixed on presenting some design-forward choices. That is how we got here to Comprise Studio. These guys hand-make lovely art-deco type brass lights right here in Mallorca.”Above: A built-in nook and authentic stone window on the prime of the steps.Above: One among 4 bedrooms, that includes an Espanyolet-made fabric headboard.Above: Espanyolet’s lime partitions are a collaboration with native artisans. “We don’t make the lime paste or paint ourself; there are superb artisans on Mallorca who’ve been perfecting this artwork over a whole bunch of years,” writes Thomas. “All supplies used are pure and from this island. The lime used has superb antibacterial properties and can shield from mildew. We then add our particular approach whereas making use of the paste or paint. We by no means simply use one colour, and a wall is known as a massive piece of artwork for us. Only one wall in a room shall be sufficient to mirror colour into your entire area.”Above: The pink tiles are literally pure terra cotta from Todobarro; the classic ship window was already in the home.
Above: Beds are made with dyed linen throw blankets. The built-in desk was authentic to the home.Above: Unique beams and uncooked linen coverlets in a twin bed room.Above: Thomas and Melissa within the farmhouse.Above: The view.
Earlier than
Above: Earlier than, with terra cotta flooring and far muddle distracting from the vaulted ceilings.Above: Pretty unrecognizable. (For extra Earlier than images, head to Espanyolet.)
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N.B.: This story initially ran on January 22, 2024 and has been up to date.
