SPIRIT of SEVILLE

Sun-baked color meets British textile exuberance in an 18th-century pied-àterre reimagined by designer Amaro Sánchez de Moya.

- SUSANA ORDOVÁS

MY AIM WAS TO GIVE THE property an unmistakably eclectic character, as though it had been passed down through generations or had always been a cherished family home," Amaro Sánchez de Moya says of the Seville apartment he transformed for his friends and clients, Raúl and Manuel Romero. Charming, sharp, and, of course, a true aesthete, de Moya combines architectural design with a deep understanding of the past. "I wanted to avoid any sense of it having been designed all at once, to create the impression of layered histories-of many past inhabitants who never actually existed-while also reflecting the experiences of the current proprietors."

Located in an 18th-century palatial building in La Antigua Judería ("Old Jewish Quarter"), the roughly 1,300-square-foot apartment was acquired in 2019 by Raúl and Manuel, who live in Madrid, as their pied-à-terre. Having met in the Andalusian capital at a party, they sought a residence in the historic center, near the Cathedral-one that felt distinctly Sevillian.