"Totally détruit!” is how Jacques Grange , the AD100 designer, describes the dilapidated Majorca property he was asked to transform into a hotel for Juan Picornell, the dashing young Anglo-Spanish entrepreneur who owns the island’s popular Cappuccino Café chain. “It was just a façade!”

The bar at Palma de Mallorca’s newly opened Hotel Mamá, which was decorated by AD100 star Jacques Grange.

Today, what had been an empty shell facing Palma de Mallorca’s historic Plaza de Cort recently opened as Hotel Mamá , a 32-room, four-story destination that is the Balearic speck’s hippest new hostelry. And a wildly pretty one, too: Garden-fresh fabrics bloom with pink geraniums and purple lilacs, and floors are paved with geometric tiles in a panoply of blues, all mixed up with kicky stripes, grotto-style tables, chairs with come-hither Victorian silhouettes. Jade-green trelliswork frames the bar, orange-and-white zigzags race across a beamed ceiling, and art by Picornell favorites such as Sean Scully and Eva Jospin bedecks the walls. (For more Grange glory, see this Palm Beach Paradise .)

A gallery.

“It adjusts your internal mood right away,” Grange observes of Hotel Mamá’s infectious effervescence. “It’s all about happiness—‘We feel cozy, we feel charming, we feel poetic.’ It’s magique, no?” Rooms from $270 per night; hotelmamas