Aesop Serrano

Following our customary attitude of architectural restraint, the 1923 building’s neoclassical façade has been preserved, along with its history of residential use and mid-twentieth-century commercial transformation. An in-built system in the front window diffuses our aromas into the street, awakening the olfactory sense of passers-by. Product testers in the portico serve as a prologue to the warm-hued interior where soft arches and decorative tiling evoke Madrid’s Moorish legacy and neo-Mudéjar architecture. A convivial basin of red Spanish travertine embraces two central columns and becomes the focal point for all interactions.

At the back of the room hangs, a large macramé tapestry made by María Asunción Raventós in the 1970s; its weighty, layered textures playing with one’s visitors’ perception of volume.