People often ask me what are my inspirations for designs. The answer is that, as a designer, you’re constantly inspired by just about everything you see at any time of the day or night. Decorative and architectural details on buildings; fashions in shop windows, patterns on railings and ironwork; pieces of jewelry; ornamental tiles—the list is endless. There is inspiration on walls, floors, and ceilings – you have to look all around.
On a recent trip to Spain, I took some snapshots of details and patterns that caught my eye. I thought I’d share them.
Me at the Palau Guell
Ceramic finials Palau Guell
Cupcakes in Madrid
Detail of a window in Toledo
Detail of two buildings meeting Old Jewish City, Barcelona
Funky wallpaper at Vincon, a great design store in Barcelona
A window at Gaudi's Parc Guell in Barcelona
Door in Toledo
Entry of the Palau Guell
Floor inlay by Gaudi Sagrada Familia
Flooring in the Palau Guell
Gaudi Window at the Parc Guell
Gold leaf wall detail at the Sagrada Familia
Grate at the Prado
Inlaid wood floors Museo Guell
Market off the Rambla -what color!
Monastery in Toledo
Palau Guell basement floor of stables
Palau Guell front gate designed for openness from within, privacy from outside
Off center door in Barcelona
Parc Guell ceiling mosaic
Parc Guell column capitals
Parc Guell mosaic wall
Parc Guell
Sidewalk Barcelona
Sidewalk in Madrid
Sidewalk in Madrid
Textured wall of a house in Barcelona
Tower finial Palau Guell (Gaudi)
Wallpaper in Vincon
Tile in a courtyard in Madrid
Wall Pattern (Gaudi)
Ceiling at the Monastery of San Juan de Los Reyes in Toledo
Ceiling detail in the Cafe de la Pedrera
Ceiling in an old house
Ceiling in Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona