Son Servera is a quiet inland town in the east of Mallorca, under the Puig de sa Font, with an unfinished nineteenth-century church in the middle of it that was never roofed and is now used for concerts. The resorts of the east coast are ten minutes away but the town itself is ordinary and Mallorcan, with a Friday market and almond groves on all sides.
The barn was first converted in the 1980s by the Palma architect Antonio Estéva, and renovated again in 2009 with interiors by Martin Goray, Saskja Rosset and Mischa Leiner from Zürich. It is now two separate stone houses in one garden. The main house has a living room that opens onto terraces on two sides, an open kitchen and dining area, and two bedrooms, one with its own roof terrace. The outbuilding holds two more. Old and new are left visible against each other: stone, timber doors, and glass where the walls were opened up. The garden is planted with almond, orange and olive trees and agaves.
