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| this image and the next four are screenprints from the first video in the documentation |
The richly decorated building, shown above and in the next two images was built single handedly by Antonio Montañez.
It is one of the two houses he created himself. The first one, Casa Museo Axarquia, is located in El Valdés, a district of the city of Moclinejo, the other one in Torremolinos, both located in the coastal area in the south of Spain.
Life and works
Montanez was born in El Valdés in 1951. At the age of 19 he started working as a carpenter. He married in 1976 and the couple would have two children.
His carpentry workshop grew into a large company of 2000 m2 in the field of furniture and kitchen furnishings, located in Alhaurin de la Torre and named Cocinas Montañez. It had more than 40 employees in 1990. However, due to the credit crisis in 2008. he had to sell his company to be able to pay the employees.
From 2011 to 2019 he was Councilor for Culture in the municipality of Moclinejo.
Creating a singular architecture
In 2003 Montañez bought a piece of land in the built-up area of El Valdés.
Here he wanted to realize a dream that told him to create a decorated building, a dream that had to do with what he saw happening when residents renovated their homes and produced containers, lining the streets full of remnants of wooden floors, bars, windows and other items. Over the years he gathered an extensive collection of these discarded items, which he could now draw on to realize his creation.
Montañez managed to realize his dream in just one year and in 2005 the Casa Museo Axarquia, was inaugurated. Initially intended as a weekend residence, it became a museum, but then with facilities to eventually stay during the weekend.
The name of the museum refers to a region near El Valdés called Axarquía, a name dating from the time of Moorish rule, which in Arabic means Land in the East (as Algarve means Land in the West).
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| a decorated staircase |
Interior
The house has a floor area of approximately 300 square meters, spread over five floors. The 19th century materials with which the museum is equipped, give visitors the feeling that they are stepping back into earlier times.
Montanez put a lot of love and attention into the construction and the furnishing of the interior. The rooms in the house are richly filled with antique furniture and all kinds of items which he collected over about forty years, such as gramophones, cameras. a jukebox, typewriters.....
And furthermore, there are about 200 works of art, created by about 30 regional painters, ceramists and sculptors. All furniture and decorative items contribute to the stylization of the interior.
One of the rooms in the house is richly stocked with bottles of wine bottled by wine producers in the Andalusia region.
Antonio Montañez started decorating the house in Torremolinos around 2017.
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| the house of Montanez in Torremolinos as on the video made in 2023 |
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| this image and the next two from the video by Serflac |
Montañez intended for his father to live in this house, but when his father saw the scale of the project, he was less enthusiastic and decided against it.
Scattered throughout the courtyard are a goat and a donkey, among other things. The interior is also lavishly decorated.
Casa Montañez in Torremolinos
C. Tirreno, 7,
Torremolinos. dept Málaga, region Andalusi, Spain
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