Art interior design A trip to Spain’s most inspiring interiors
Because beauty is also found in design
A building is much more than its façade. Its differing interior spaces may surprise you, win your heart and even redefine the concept you have of it. So, wherever you go on holiday or on an urban getaway, do not hesitate to step through the doors of monuments and hotels for a dazzling view of their décor and, while there, to take inspiration and ideas for reinventing your home.
Barcelona: from modernism to street art
Barcelona is one of the cities that has been most permeable to the various aesthetic trends of the last 150 years. And it has also been able to generate several styles of its own, distinguished by the Mediterranean light and the creativity of its architects.
The most characteristic of them all is modernism, a current born in different European cities under the name of art nouveau in the late nineteenth century, which generated a display of imagination and a return to nature.
This is why floral motifs, curved lines, mythological figures and colored mosaics are the major features from which to take inspiration when visiting buildings like Casa Batlló, Casa Vicens or the Palau de la Música.
Another movement that defines the trendiest Barcelona is on its walls. In these contemporary paintings, artists such as Guate Mao, Joan Fontcuberta or Boa Mistura (in this case, at the Iberostar Selection Paseo de Gracia) make the city vibrate through their art. These works propose a new aesthetic at street level that redefines the urban landscape.
The legacy of Manrique and aloe vera in the Canaries
The Canary Islands enjoyed a watershed moment with the work of César Manrique. The prolific Lanzarote architect devoted his life to promoting a style that combines to the limits of the imagination the color white, volcanic black stone and native island plants such as cacti or aloe vera.
This integration is enjoyed in the archipelago’s resorts, as we can discover in Iberostar Selection Sábila, a hotel where aloe vera is the gastronomic, decorative and health-giving linchpin of your holiday. Other surprises to delight our senses await us in Iberostar Grand Salomé, an oasis of flawless colors and pure vegetation in southern Tenerife. For its part, at Iberostar La Bocayna Village, located in Lanzarote, we encounter an apartment complex where design and nature join forces to convey peace and harmony.
If we wish to take away with us a unique object from this volcanic paradise, you could not do better than to go to Teguise on any Sunday. This town, brimming with history, boasts the most important street market in the Canaries, a meeting place for the best craftsmen and buyers visiting the island.
