Preview - The Madrid House That Learned to Wait

The brief arrived three years before I could take the project. The owner — a retired magistrate — had bought a nineteenth-century townhouse in Chamberí, gutted it to bare concrete and brick, and then stopped. He wanted to wait until he found someone who understood what he was doing.

We worked slowly, sourcing almost everything in Spain. The terracotta tiles came from a family workshop in Valencia. The ironwork was forged by a blacksmith outside Toledo. The only imported piece is a small painting above the fireplace, acquired at auction in Brussels, which the owner brought from his previous house.

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