The Serra de Tramuntana is a mountain range that runs along the northwestern edge of the island of Majorca, off the coast of mainland Spain. Its towering peaks and valleys are lined with ancient olive groves, lemon orchards and picturesque hilltop villages. The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea.
Nine years ago, the British fashion photographer Kate Bellm decided to make these mountains her home, building a house just off the coastal road between the towns of Deia and Soller and commuting to shoots for clients like Gucci and magazines like British Vogue. In 2020, after she fell in love with the 18th-century finca next door, she and her husband, the Mexican artist Edgar Lopez Arellano, decided to turn their hands to hospitality.
Hotel Corazon opened earlier this month, after more than two years of work by the couple alongside a team from Moredesign, a local architecture practice that’s a mainstay of glossy magazines like Architectural Digest.
“We were covered in dust for months and months,” Ms. Bellm, 35, said as she made her way from a cavernous room with a fireplace centerpiece — perfect for snuggle puddles or sound baths, she declared — and into a verdant inner courtyard. The hotel’s aesthetic, and particularly its bedrooms, feels heavily influenced by the organic architecture movement of the 1970s, which espoused carving out a harmonious balance between the synthetic and natural worlds.
All of the rooms are individually designed but share curving pigmented lime walls in soft shades of pink, sage and ocher; custom-made furniture by local artisans; shaggy carpets; and windows that open out onto gardens overflowing with palm and jacaranda trees, honeysuckle and cactuses (Mr. Arellano, 40, who specializes in constructing zero-water cactus gardens, was busy potting several varieties on the restaurant terrace nearby.) Rooms range from 550 euros (about $600) to 1,800 euros.
“When I came here for the first time, I knew immediately what we needed to do and what it had the capacity to give,” said Ms. Bellm, who wore stonewashed denim flares and braids in her mane of hair. “A place this island is missing — a supercool hotel that feels like the private home of a friend, with wellness at its core and where you can’t break the rules because there are none. I wanted to create a place that my people — fashion people — will totally love.”
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