Ana Martín Pelaz renovates a house in Ibiza, revealing its hidden rural essence

Amid olive trees, orchards and the distant crow of a rooster, Villa Golondrina has become a rural yet modern refuge in the heart of Ibiza. A home that breathes authenticity, calm and rootedness. Here, interior designer Ana Martín Pelaz, founder of Estudio Martín Pelaz, has been able to listen to the silent language of traditional architecture and make it converse with a contemporary, serene and luminous sensibility.

From the very beginning, Ana’s intention was to preserve the rural essence of the house, updating its spaces to provide greater comfort and warmth without betraying its original soul. The intervention was, above all, an act of discovering that hidden rural and Ibizan spirit. It was about letting the house speak, allowing its story to continue pulsing beneath the renewed skin of natural materials and the white light of the Mediterranean.

The vaulted ceilings with exposed beams, the terracotta floors and the continuous plaster walls create a sober and honest atmosphere. In their apparent simplicity, each element reveals a deep search for balance. The furniture, chosen with discernment and affection, combines essential pieces and objects with soul, weaving a visual narrative that speaks of tradition and modernity at once.

In Villa Golondrina, the present does not erase the past — it uncovers it. Everything here evokes a domestic, quiet Ibiza, far from the noise, where the rhythm of the day is marked by the sun tracing the whitewashed walls and the rooster’s crow at dawn, awakening nostalgic memories of times long past.

In this project, the interior designer proposes a way of living that is also a way of thinking: to live slowly, to connect with the land, to let the landscape enter the home like a breeze. Every corner becomes an extension of the surroundings, every texture a trace of the place, and every nuance of light an invitation to serenity.

Villa Golondrina seeks nothing other than to be what it already is: a real, lived-in, profoundly Ibizan home. A house where beauty is measured by the intensity of silence — a silence turned into matter.

Project: Villa Golondrina.

Location: Ibiza.

Completed: 2024.

Interior design: Estudio Martín Pelaz.
Styling: Santa Living.
Photography: Sonia Sabnani.
Source: Estudio Martín Pelaz.

Ana Martín Pelaz

The interior designer Ana Martín Pelaz develops her work in Ibiza, with a personal signature defined by the harmony between light, material and territory. Founder of Estudio Martín Pelaz (Ibiza / Formentera), she delicately directs each project —from interior design to objects— always with the purpose of allowing the space to breathe, vibrate and reveal the hidden memories of the Mediterranean landscape.

Trained as a Technical Architect at the University of Zaragoza and holding a Master’s degree in Decoration and Interior Design from the Escuela Madrileña de Decoración, she has refined her vision through projects that weave deep connections with the local environment, craftsmanship and a subtle atmosphere. Her professional practice ranges from the renovation of homes and holiday houses to residential interventions in the island’s rural settings, often collaborating with local architects to bring to life interiors that open up to the Ibizan landscape.

Among her most recent projects stands out Villa Golondrina, whose interior design draws inspiration from orchards, olive trees and the serene intensity of the sunrise.

Her interior architecture seeks to evoke sensations: every corner is conceived as an extension of the landscape, every texture as an imprint of the place, and every nuance of light as part of a narrative of Mediterranean living.

Project by Ana Martín Pelaz