THE GOOD LIFE
Meet Macarena and Aldo, whose delightfully quirky Spanish home is a reflection of their artistic lives – right down to the menagerie of animal companions
Macarena Gómez and Aldo Comas with some of their family’s many pets – including a llama, alpacas, chickens and horses
MACARENA’S DRESS: LOVE BY KSENIA KARPENKO. BOOTS: SESSUN. EARRINGS: CU&CU. ALDO’s JEANS & JACKET: PIOMBO. JUMPER: SAMSOE. TRAINERS: HOGAN
Macarena and Aldo pose in the living room with their parrot and one of their two dogs. The bedroom is decorated with a hand-painted mural behind the bed, while the bathroom gives a view of the garden
MACARENA’S OUTFIT & ALDO’S TROUSERS: POLO RALPH LAUREN. ALDO’S SHIRT: HARMONT & BLAINE. SHOES: PIOMBO
Five years ago, Macarena Gómez and Aldo Comas left Barcelona in search of a calmer way of life for themselves and their young son Dante. Since then, the artistic couple haven’t looked back, settling in the picturesque Alt Empordà region just south of the Pyrenees in northern Spain.
Here, they’ve converted a 17th-century millhouse – once their holiday home – into a fulltime abode, a colourful, comfortable hub for their creative talents. With plenty of space and a riverside location, it’s also where they love to hike and ride, grow their own food and, above all, share their lives with an ever-expanding menagerie of animal friends, including a llama, alpacas, horses, dogs, peacocks and a parrot.