This house, so different from those on the Golden Mile, the dream of European aristocracy since the 1950s, a handful of miles of seafront coastline, protected by the crest of the Sierra Blanca mountains on the Mediterranean horizon, is divided up in a series of generous rooms. One of a kind, it has long been known as El Rastro. Looking at it, we immediately see that the original builder’s desire not to betray the environment has prevailed over the design. The contradiction, however, is only illusory: Graciela Leanza and Javier Martin, who oversaw the renovation, needed just to draw an ideal line between the buildings with a volume to rebuild the visual continuity. From the green cube that greets us at the entrance, a luxuriant vertical garden, prelude to the larger, more extensive one that surrounds the building, we move on to an initial large room where the protagonist is a staircase with geometrical steps made from white marble and stainless steel.

On the first floor, which is a beating heart, the tones are warmer and the material takes over. Leather and hide become earthy then dark, moving from sienna and cognac hues to denser shades of black. Going up again, to the second floor, the same reflections that we see when we turn our gaze on the panorama, mid and light blue, seem to transfer and soften on the pieces that surround us.

The foretold promised garden, seen from above and from every angle through the countless openings to the outside, has never ceased to accompany us. It is a guardian that, with its lush vegetation, scented with citrus fruits and the salty notes of the Maquis scrubland, embraces and protects Baxter Marbella. Within its perimeter, the open-air collection expresses all its innovative and magnetic charge, in a play of cross-references between inside and outside, balanced by the seats and leathers, lacquered finishes and textiles.

As eclectic as the city that hosts it, made up of velvety sandy beaches and Gothic-Renaissance architecture laced with Middle Eastern fascinations that spread through Andalusia under the influence of trade with Morocco, this showroom touches on its traditions, borrowing their visionary variety, and looks forward to the future of the region, which is growing along with the new generations who choose to live there.