Serendipity, good luck and a great deal of trust and courage were all needed to make this elegant restoration of a century-old traditional Mallorcan possessió or rural estate happen.

The architectural refurbishment was directed by Bernat Oliver and Javi Márquez, and interior design by Feliu Rullán and Victoria Vidal, the owners of the Mallorcan interior design and accessories store Bon Vivant Concept.

Feliu Rullán and Victoria Vidal had never designed a house before, so when a client fell in love with their store and asked them to design his estate, they were stunned. The 800 square-metre (8,600 sq.ft) estate was partly in ruins, and the owners ? an Austrian family that spent its summers on the estate ? wanted as much restored as possible but also had cosmopolitan ambitions for it.
With the owners trusting their own instincts and the designers, and the designers trusting both themselves and the owners, the painstaking process took two years. In the harmonious and unpretentious finished project, local historical and contemporary lifestyle considerations are clearly evident.

Cases de Son Serra is located at the south end of the UNESCO World Heritage Site-designated mountain range of Sierra de Tramuntana in the Bunyola municipality of the island of Mallorca. It is a typical Mallorcan structure that was originally a residence, storage and production facility surrounded by productive agricultural land.

The estate is from 1773 and it is divided into two parts. Th...