Temptation
Tue, 22 Mar 2011
Every so often an email lands in my inbox from perhaps the cruelest man I know. Chris from Welcome Beyond dangles dream designs in front of me and it is all I can do to stop myself from hocking everything I own, jumping a plane and escaping to the hand picked boutique vacation properties that litter the pages of their website. Chris has cruelly tempted me again with a Spanish beauty and oh the temptation! Alemanys 5 ... "located in the core part of Girona's medieval quarter, within the scope of the first wall and overlooking the Plaça de Sant Domènec, is the property Alemanys 5, whose original building dates from the Sixteenth Century. Its recent restoration integrates old and new, where sober and clean lines look for the enjoyment of essential elements such as space, light, shadow, fire, stone, water or silence." Two apartments, "El Badiu" (The Veranda) and "El Jardí" (The Garden) designed by architect Anna Noguera. Thanks Chris for the link and double thanks for the extra photos. I'm packing as I type!
Reader Comments (53)
Beautiful, so simple, less is definitely more!
Heaven..................
I'm in Italy now.........just went house hunting in Puglia.........
It will take me a day or so to mend this heart...............Im in love with this place.........
Perfection............what in the world do the owners have to look forward to now...........??
Oh......... a place similar but with a water view.............
perfection...............
Thanks for this wonderful link! Just reposted it on my Swedish blog with a trackback to your site!
I'm from Girona and when I saw the post, I've excited a lot: at last a project in my city! Girona is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe (I've traveled a lot!!), but above all with the charm of a small town that offers all... So we have a middle way: not a village to be quiet but you need a car to get anywhere, nor a big city where you find everything and lose patience and health. I encourage everyone to visit us!
aesthetically pleasing, but that finish is inherently dusty and will attract lots of dust. A cleaning nightmare too!
Oh my goodness!!!
I'm going to Girona in a couple of weeks and have literally just booked an apartment... wish I'd seen this first. Stunning.
Mary
How depressing.
Simplitate si eleganta. Minunat.
can we work out a timeshare? a blogger conference?
killer!!!
debra
5th and state
eine rundum gelungene Idee. Wirklich sehr sehr schön. Aufgeräumt und trotz dem gemütlich.
Sehr gut
Perfection
one of my favourites, so cool!!
Natural Beauty!
looks simple,comfortable and beautiful. i'm very loved ..
Part of me loves this place, so minimal and restful, and yet another part of me finds it so bland and colourless as to be practically invisible, and as usual, utterly unrealistic, these people never seem to have any hobbies apart from eating and sleeping, and no body ever gives them gifts that don't fit and yet they have to find a home for. What do they do, give it all away to charity shops?
Incredibly disciplined simplicity . . . amazing aesthetic results. What a wonderful space to occupy.
Absolutely stunning.
looks so simply beautiful - a cloud in the heavens
Wonderfully designed home. Brilliant!!
I love the combination of old and new.
this is the kind of stuff i love and design myself..Love it, its absolutely perfectly designed....
I love this! Quite beautiful...
I just realized why I don't like modern and/or minimalist interiors: Except for the books, it looks like no one lives here.
These amazing environments make my heart dance )))
You are cruel too! You shared this and I should be cleaning my patio out for the summer, but instead I can't stop looking at this beauty!!
un pequeño sueño hecho realidad, comodidad, vanguardia y buen estilo!!!