Min’s World
I FELL HOPELESSLY IN LOVE with this house thirty years ago, in part because of its garden backdoor. I was staying with my great friend, the decorator Christophe Gollut, in the village of Ingenio on Gran Canaria, one of the seven Spanish Canary Islands. One day we were wandering the lanes and alleyways of the village and we spied, in an otherwise blank wall, a double wooden door with an open padlock hanging on it. Being a self-proclaimed house freak, pushing it open seemed the natural thing for me to do. He and I squealed with delight at what we saw.
It was an obviously abandoned dwelling, built on a
