Category: STYLE MOMENTS
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Style Moment | Behind the Cathedral de Sevilla
“We travel to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin (1903-1977) French-born American author
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Style Moment | Reales Alcázares de Sevilla
“Yet all experience is an arch where through Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!” Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) British poet
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Style Moment | Plaza Independencia, Madrid
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” Miriam Beard (1876-1958) American historian and archivist
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Style Moment | Artist’s studio, Seville
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
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Style Moment | Madrid
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious.” Steve Jobs (1955-2011) American entrepreneur and inventor; co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
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STYLE MOMENT | CHAIRS | Bertoia chair, Copenhagen
“The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.” Harry Bertoia (1915 – 1978) Italian artist, sculptor, and furniture designer
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Style Moment | Happy Valentine’s Day, Paris
“All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts / Charles Schulz (1922-2000) American cartoonist
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Style Moment | Reykjavik Bookstore
“It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.” Agatha Christie (1890-1976) British crime writer; quote from her 1963 book, The Clocks.
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Style moment | Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (1887-1965) Known as Le Corbusier; Swiss-born architect, designer, and writer
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Style Moment | Houses of Reykjavik
“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.” Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926) Spanish architect
