A newly built home near Santanyí for a family of six. Lime, handmade terracotta and reclaimed stone give the rooms depth and texture, while shaded terraces and courtyards make outdoor life part of the everyday.
At Can Maixura in Felanitx, locally made clay floors connect rooms changed by successive renovations. Reworked kitchens and bathrooms sit alongside original timber beams, with natural stone, wood and our hand-painted textiles bringing the house together.
We’re Melissa Rosenbauer and Thomas Bossert, the makers and designers behind espanyolet. From New York to Bali to Mallorca, our curiosity about materials and making grew into a studio working across interiors, textiles, art and objects.
Mallorca has shaped how we look at materials, buildings and everyday life. Our approach begins with paying attention to what is already there - from the shade of a courtyard to the seam in an old textile - and letting those observations guide what we design and make.
Vintage linen and hemp sourced across Europe, painted by hand and made into blankets, bedcovers, pillows, headboards and seating. A collection of textile work exploring color on cloth marked by decades of weaving, washing and use.
A historic masia in Mont-ras, in Catalonia’s Empordà region. We connected rooms fragmented by earlier renovations, pairing microcement and oak floors with hand-painted textiles, a stainless steel kitchen and an outdoor kitchen designed around an established grapevine.
A seafront apartment in Mallorca for clients based in Copenhagen. Their Scandinavian sensibilities meet hand-painted textiles, vintage furniture and pieces made with island craftspeople, including ceramic lamps, reclaimed-wood furniture and custom Huguet tiles.
A stone house in the Serra de Tramuntana, surrounded by olive trees and overlooking the Mediterranean. We reworked its dark interiors with softer colors, natural materials and places to gather, keeping the existing timber and terracotta central to the design.
Hand-painted vintage linen and hemp textiles for a countryside home at the foot of the Tramuntana mountains. Sage greens and golden yellows drawn from the surrounding landscape bring color to generous built-in seating in a house designed by Mercedes Lopez Coello.
Our former home in Gènova, a small 1950s house where a few centimeters could decide whether something worked. We adapted furniture, thoughtfully gave attention to natural materials and gave the porches as much attention as the rooms inside.
Our exploration of colour moved from vintage cloth into paintings, including works made for particular homes. A selection that connects our interests in surfaces, scale and the rooms we inhabit.
Photo styling for Finca Son Serra, a stone house between Campos and Felanitx. Working with photographer Pernilla Danielsson, we edited and arranged the homeowners’ furnishings to bring the original arches, natural materials and proportions into focus.
Our work with color began with hand-mixed pigments and vintage cloth. Through painting, layering and dyeing linen and hemp, we explored how each surface changed the result—an experience that continues to inform our paintings, furniture and interiors.
An exploration of colour on a larger scale. Locally sourced lime paste and pigmented microcement, applied by hand to create surfaces whose texture and depth reveal themselves in changing light.
Furniture and built-in seating designed for the homes we worked on, bringing our hand-painted textiles into everyday use and exploring the relationship between colour, cloth and form.
Textile work for a contemporary home above Port de Sóller. We hand-painted vintage hemp in layered blues to reupholster the living-room sofa and developed gray ombré linen curtains, bringing color and an open weave into the home’s polished interiors.
