Tag: Seville
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EXCEPTIONAL EATERIES | Seville | Redhouse Art & Food
Behind a massive, graffiti-covered door in Seville, Spain is a café. And a bar. And an art gallery. And an antique store. It’s all in one room, and it’s called Redhouse Art and Food. The folks at Redhouse have taken over a large, industrial space for their unique creative enterprise. It was late afternoon, and…
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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 | 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…
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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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Shenanigans in Sevilla
When I was in Seville, I broke into a church and a palace. The thing is, I only had a few days, and nothing was open when I needed it to be. I got to the Unesco World Heritage palace, El Real Alcázar de Sevilla, at 4:59. It closed at 5. I pleaded with the…
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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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Eye on Design | Seville | Look Up
In 12th century Sevilla, the Moors decorated the walls, ceilings, floors, and facades of their homes and buildings with brightly colored, patterned tile. The tradition has continued to this day, resulting in tile ornamentation almost everywhere you go in the city – it was captivating. Could it get better than this? Then I looked up.
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Weird but Wonderful | Anybody need a room?
A narrow lane in Sevilla, Spain.
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Seville | Flamenco Two Ways
“Flamenco is the means through which man reaches God without the intervention of saints or angels.” -Luis Antonio de Vega Flamenco is one of the most dramatic forms of expression I’ve ever seen. While I was in Seville, I saw two flamenco shows, and they couldn’t have been more different… I saw them both in…
