The apartment keeps what should be kept: ceiling height, plaster cornices, the geometry of the enfilade. Everything else has been rebuilt, including services, insulation and climate control, so the house reads classical and lives contemporary.
Reception rooms face the street and the balconies; bedrooms sit to the rear around an interior courtyard, which keeps the sleeping side of the house quiet at any hour.
Salamanca is Madrid's prime residential district: wide streets, galleries, the city's best retail and easy access to the Castellana.