A classic Ibicenca country house,- white lime-washed, thick-walled, timbered in Sabina wood. This is a vernacular that belongs only to this island,- not Mallorca, not Menorca. Cubic-shaped buildings with flat roofs, which help combat the intense Mediterranean sun is distinct to this island alone.

Its geometry rises from a soft, organic base, modern lines held inside ancient walls.

The forms are primal,- volumes carved from mass rather than assembled from parts.  Against this organic vernacular, the masculinity asserts itself in proportion and clarity- block-like furniture, anchored geometries, a spatial order that owes more to Spanish brutalism than to rural nostalgia.

The kitchen is a play of texture and form- volcanic glazed ceramics, a single slab of hand chiseled monolithic stone, raw wood sculptural chairs. Bathrooms are cut into the structure itself,- basins recessed into lime and stone. Bedrooms are defined not by furniture but by architecture- arched niches, beds set into the floors where the fabrics becomes the main protagonists of comfort. 

Outside the inbuilt lounges are low and they wear textiles in washed greens and faded blacks, curves and softened corners keep the whole in dialogue with the island’s wind-shaped terrain.

Can Mestre moves between the ancient and the assertive,- its modern geometry tempered by the primal language of Ibizan form. A home where the walls breathe history, but the lines speak of now

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Furniture/Decoration/Styling: del Negro Studio

Architecture/Design: More Ibiza

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