A review of the 50s
Journalist Esteban Mercer publishes in La Almudaina, supplement of Diario de Mallorca, an article about a beautiful flat for sale in Monapart Palma, located in Bonaire and completely refurbished in 2006.
LA ALMUDAINA (DAILY NEWSPAPER OF MALLORCA) | 01.06.2014 | ESTEBAN MERCER
[On 1 June last La Almudaina, supplement of the Diario de Mallorcapublished a report on a beautiful flat for sale in Monapart Palma, located in Bonaire and completely refurbished in 2006].
The second half of the 20th century saw the beginning of a clear predominance of the modern movement, but from the 1960s onwards its approaches began to be questioned. Since then, but especially from the 1970s onwards, its approaches began to be questioned. From that moment on, we can say that the characteristic is the diversity of proposals of all styles.
And at the beginning of the 21st century, the architectural panorama could be defined by three characteristics. A great diversity of formulas, almost anything goes if it is of high quality, the use of sophisticated and complex technology, in which the software The need for a new computer technology has become essential and a special interest in urban, social and ecological problems, something that was not the case when the building we are showing you today was constructed. At least not as we understand it today. Something similar happened with the interiors and decoration of the houses of the 1950s and 1960s. Decoration experts and interior design historians agree that the 1950s, extending the margins to the following two decades, was a golden age. Their golden age. One of the reasons is the creative explosion with the recovery of the design of spaces and furniture interrupted during the wars that ravaged the world in the previous years. A certain liberation took place, a revolution that is still in force today, in which the building and the flat we are showing you today can serve as a reference point in Palma.
The incorporation of furniture from that era is one of the most important trends in reclaimed design, also in interiors, in recent years. It is one of the looks the most repeated in the vintage style, which has become so popular. Managed by Monapart, the building that houses the house you see is very representative of a Palma that is being revisited again, with the utmost respect.
This is a corner building dating from 1957, with a ground floor and four storeys, a lift and two neighbours per floor. It is very typical, although its location is privileged, which undoubtedly led its owner, an architect, to intervene carefully, removing partition walls and raising others, revising or changing floors, and little else.
The corner flat of 139m2 of constructed surface area, with a 12m2 balcony, four bedrooms and two bathrooms, on a real fourth floor with southwest orientation was completely refurbished in 2006 and logically benefited from the technological advances that the 21st century has brought to architecture, but it was valued that it was located in a very well constructed building from 1957.
Spacious living room with fireplace, associated with the dining room, all open to the outside balcony. Plenty of light. Well equipped kitchen, with space for dining table, associated with the rear gallery, where two of the rooms can be connected with a large sliding door.
Therefore, bright rooms, bedrooms with built-in wardrobes, so necessary today, bathrooms with pieces of first brands that give a touch of vanguard in a subtle way.
The refurbishment, it should be pointed out, was excellently carried out with very well executed and good quality details and finishes with new installations, city gas heating and pre-installation for air conditioning, all without losing the charm of the houses that were built in Palma when it opened up outside its walls and avenues such as Jaime III began to come to life.
It was a new Palma then, today it is reinventing itself.
