Tag: S P A I N
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Style Moment | El Rastro Flea Market, Madrid
“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
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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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COOL HOTELS | Madrid | Casa de Madrid
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 world traveler. Doña Medina restored…
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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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COOL HOTELS | Barcelona | Casa Camper
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 located in the arty El…
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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
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COOL HOTELS | Seville | Hotel Palacio de Villapanés
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.
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Eye on Design | Madrid | Sculptor, José G. Onieva
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.
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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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Eye on Design | Seville | The Alcázar
Yes, it’s the same palace I snuck into – but I had only been able to see the gardens at that time. The next day I went back to the Royal Alcázar of Seville to see the glorious arched, tiled, filigreed, crenulated, vibrantly colorful interior. I am putting this post in Eye on Design, because…
