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FLEA MARKETS | Madrid | El Rastro

23 April 2019 ♦

STORIES

On a Sunday in Madrid, there’s only one place to be. The El Rastro Flea market. Since the 15th century, the El Rastro neighborhood has been famous for the trade of second hand items. The market starts at 9, and by 11 the streets are teeming with people. I started…

Style Moment | El Rastro Flea Market, Madrid

5 March 2016 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“The camera is much more than a recording apparatus; it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.” Orson Welles (1915-1985) American actor, director, writer and producer

Style Moment | Casa de Madrid

2 August 2013 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” Bill Bryson (Born 1951) American author

COOL HOTELS | Madrid | Casa de Madrid

29 July 2013 ♦

DON’T MISS

It’s like staying in the home of a well-traveled, aristocratic aunt. Casa de Madrid is located in a landmark 18th century building across from Madrid’s Royal Opera House. Massive ornate doors lead to a diminutive elevator, and up to the apartment of Marta Medina: art historian, architect, curator, designer, and…

Style Moment | Casa Batlló, Barcelona

5 July 2013 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul, but executed with clinical coolness.” Joan Miró (1893-1983) Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona

COOL HOTELS | Barcelona | Casa Camper

1 July 2013 ♦

DON’T MISS

You’ve got to love a hotel where you get two rooms for the price of one: a bedroom with en suite bathroom, and a lounge across the hall…with a hammock. Casa Camper is a boutique hotel (there’s also one in Berlin) owned by Spanish hipster footwear manufacturer, Camper. It is…

Style Moment | Hotel Palacio de Villapanés, Seville

7 June 2013 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“Good design is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.” George Nelson (1908-1986) American industrial designer

COOL HOTELS | Seville | Hotel Palacio de Villapanés

3 June 2013 ♦

DON’T MISS

Hotel Palacio de Villapanés, in Seville, Spain, was originally built as a private mansion for the Marques of Villapanés in the 18th century. It is now a fabulously designed hotel. (more…)

Eye on Design | Madrid | Sculptor, José G. Onieva

28 May 2013 ♦

EYE ON DESIGN

I was in the Madrid design studio of Spain’s doyenne d’intérieurs, Isabel López-Quesada, when I spotted the little bronze sculpture on her desk. I was obsessed. “Where is it from?” I asked. Next stop, sculptor José G. Onieva. (more…)

Style Moment | Behind the Cathedral de Sevilla

12 May 2013 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“We travel to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin (1903-1977) French-born American author