Culture blog

    Marie-Noëlle Ginard and Robert López Hinton in Cameroon In 2012 we travelled to Cameroon to collaborate on a sustainable construction project for two houses using materials such as BTC or rammed earth, earth finishes and decoration inspired by Cameroonian craftsmanship. For a few months we lived in the area…

In the summer of 2007 we invited a friend, Marie-Noëlle Barré, director of a theatre and cultural centre in Paris, to visit Can Monroig. The house was still undergoing restoration work but we could already see the open spaces, the different levels, the heights, etc. Our friend, impressed by the place, asked us - "Have you…

  Can Monroig is at least seven hundred years old, twelve are the years that have passed since we fell in love with this house. This is a summary of what has happened in it on an artistic and cultural level in recent years. Can Monroig, 2002. Before its…

  When we restored this house we didn't think that one day someone would dance barefoot on the stone floor or run to the patio to hide in an imaginary bunker. I don't know if that's good or bad, I mean not programming the future. We created the container without thinking about the content.

A few days ago I met the American musician Paul Collins. He came to Can Monroig accompanied by his friend Paco. A few days later, at the concert that Paul Collins Beat gave in Pollença, those of us who were there witnessed how the song that he dedicated a few years ago to Paco, Juan, Mariano and the Plaza Mayor "Paco & Juan" became a hit.

100 idées magazine from 1983, Omega workshop and Bloomsbury group. I have always been addicted to magazines. In the 70s, Ozono, Ajoblanco or Disco Expres. In the 80s, 100 idées, a French magazine, a catch-all for decoration, fashion and art. It was in it, in 1983, that I first heard about the group…

   When San Felio was not San Felio street, the Baluard was not Es Baluard and Can Monroig did not exist for the two of us. In '93, Robert and I lived on San Felio street and attended a course in advertising photography where he would learn some technique and I... I didn't even care anymore...

Given the possibility that the remains of ancient buildings found in Can Monroig, Mallorca, are from a communal area of the old Jewish quarter of Inca or "Call", where the Jewish community celebrated their purification rites, we share this video about an ancient Mikveh found in Jerusalem. It explains the characteristics and…

    In 2002, when we visited Can Monroig for the first time, we fell in love with the house. That small pointed arch, the stone slabs in one part of the house, the spacious areas, the pure state in which the house was found... But what we were going to find in the renovation was really surprising, it would take a few years…