The residential and commercial building located on the corner of Adriano and Pastor y Landero streets is one of the few examples of modernist architecture in Seville. Its design was by the Sevillian architect Antonio Gómez Millán and it is popularly known as the “House of Flies” due to its ceramic decoration featuring insects.
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Its design posed the challenge of having to adapt to the characteristics of a completely triangular plot, with two sides forming a façade to the outside and a third adjoining the building next door. The entire space is articulated around a central courtyard, also rectangular in shape, with the sides that have a façade wider than the dividing wall. The corner where the streets meet is harmoniously highlighted with a simple chamfer that stands out from the triangular plan.
The facade is notable for its horizontality and the superposition of semicircular and lintelled openings, which is also found in other works by the same author. Its imaginative decorative elements mean that the building can be classified as modernist. As we said, this style is quite rare in the city, since at the time when this style was developed in other European cities (early 20th century), Seville decidedly opted for Regionalism.
Among the modernist elements, the tile decoration stands out. On a yellow background, very common in Seville workshops, stylised natural elements are arranged, which, on the contrary, are not at all common in the city. Thus, in the spandrels and on the lintels, stylised and beautiful designs are arranged based on natural elements such as leaves, flowers, dragonflies, butterflies and bees.
