IT STARTED INNOCENTLY enough, as a search for decent pastrami, an item not easily found in Western Europe. We were emerging from lockdown, and while my American passport had allowed me to travel back to the United States a few times...
Casa Milà is a Modernista building in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the last private residence designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Built between 1906 and 1912, the building was commissioned by Roser Segimón and her second husband Pere Milà in 1905 with the intention of living on the main floor and renting out the rest of the apartments, hence the Casa Milà, the new home of the Milà family. The building is popularly known as La Pedrera (the stone quarry), in reference to its unconventional rough-hewn appearance.
Philosophy seems to be on a hiding to nothing. It has a 2,500-year history in the West and an extensive back-catalogue – of problems. There are questions about what exists, and what we know about it, such as: Do we have free will? Is there an external world? Does God exist? and so on. There are also questions of analysis and definition such as: What makes a sentence true? What makes an act just? What is causation? What is a person? This is a tiny sample.
WE'RE STILL in the process of repopulating our archives after the technical disaster that was 2020 saw the obliteration of thousands of images from our hosting site; many personal images were also lost from our external drives due to another (un-related) catastrophe, but that is another story. And in the process of fixing a 2017 article by Daniela featuring the work of Lázaro Rosa-Violán—the interior designer responsible for many of the chicest hotels and restaurants around the world ...
IF YOU'VE BEEN READING for a while, you will know of our love for farm and country house style lately, and why we would be naturally drawn to this wonderful 19th century home in the centre of Barcelona.
From Instagram – Blogger Style Inspiration | No. 12: Belen Hostalet, Barcelona THIS WEEK’S Blogger Style features the beautiful Instagram photos of...
When la folie of blogging and visual inspiration started, j'étais attiré by interior design as I was never more attracted about anything else in my life. And I still am. I have came across Lázaro Violan's work so many times and I really love every single incredible decoration project he worked on.
If you follow along with us on the This Is Glamorous Instagram page, you will be familiar with scenes of our beloved sunny Spain.
TIG tv | Vol. 01 No. 04 On this week’s instalment of TIG tv: 10 Rules for Success from James Altucher...
Manarola, Cinque Terre by @thetiafox IT’S NEARLY THE WEEKEND and for the third instalment of Around the World by Instagram, it’s off...
The second largest city in Spain, Barcelona has a history that dates back long, long ago—2000 years ago, in fact,...
. . . inspired by the artful arrangements of jet black lace and satin, soft ruffles and crimson berries intermingled...
