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