Category: STYLE MOMENTS
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Style Moment | London bookstore
“A book can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” Madeleine L’Engle (1918-2007) American author
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Style Moment | Casa de Madrid
“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
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Style Moment | Lake Como
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.” Eleanora Duse (1858-1924) Italian actress
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Style Moment | Ballilogue Pottery
“Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has ever known.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish writer and poet
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Style Moment | The Augustine
“Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Italian Dominican priest, philosopher and theologian
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Style Moment | Casa Batlló, Barcelona
“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
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Style Moment | Sauzon, Belle-Île-en-Mer
“I used to have only earth colours on my palette…at Belle-Île-en-Mer I was seduced by the brightness of pure colour. I returned from my trip with a passion for the colours of the rainbow.” Henri Matisse (1869-1954) French painter
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Style Moment | Estancia, Argentina
“Color! What a deep and mysterious language . . . the language of dreams.” Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) French post-impressionist painter
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Style Moment | Narlai, India
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964) First prime minister of independent India
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Style Moment | Hotel Palacio de Villapanés, Seville
“Good design is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.” George Nelson (1908-1986) American industrial designer
