Ah Barcelona….! The city of dancing colors, as I call it. I was there last year between Thanksgiving and Christmas, it was cold, but the amazing colors of the city knocked off the winter darkness from me and made me feel warm inside. Color, style and funky shapes are everywhere. As I am approaching to return, I can see the colors all over again enveloping me in their warm sunny light.
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The undulating building Architect Antoni Gaudí designed are the quintessential of extraordinary, a precursor of his time who was much criticized for his outlandish ideas of conceiving buildings. Nobody had built anything like that before him and nothing compares to the art of Antoni Gaudí. He left an invaluable and astounding patrimony the world admires breathlessly. The city is happy, colors affect people and their life. They are up all night strolling the streets, eating and drinking through the small hours of the night and I have not found one rude person there!
Every nuance of color has its own taste. The greens are luxuriant, the blues echoes the sea and sky, the reds and the purples are juicy like strawberries and plums. Nothing is dull. In this kind of environment is hard not to live in full colors. If I ought to have a flat in Barcelona, I would decorate it exactly as I made my color scheme palette, modern in style, hip and funky.
(Photo credit is given to each owner of each piece of furniture seen in my board above)
I would use all the colors of energy in the kitchen, dining, great room, and living; I would reserve the colors of relaxation, blues and the greens in bedroom and baths; I would paint in beige, cream and light browns all transition areas, study, and library, but when I get to my home office I would treat it a funky way to make each working day pleasant and playful.
What do you say? Can you handle all these colors throughout the entire home? Or after a while, you would need a detached house to get away from the energy of all these colors? Ciao,
Valentina
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Valentina Cirasola is an Italian Fashion-Interior Designer working in the USA and Europe since 1990. Often people describe her as “the colorist” as she loves to color her clients’ world and loves to create the unusual. “Vogue” magazine and many prominent publications in California featured Valentina’s work. She also has made four appearances on T.V. Comcast Channel 15. Author of three published books, the latest ©RED – A Voyage Into Colors is on the subject of colors.
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Valentina Expressions 
Mar 23, 2014 @ 11:55:33
Beautiful Barcelona colors! I can’t wait to see the city in May 🙂
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Mar 23, 2014 @ 15:55:23
I will be there in May as well. Perhaps we should hook up.
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Mar 23, 2014 @ 16:22:37
We will be there on 26th (PM) and 27th. Will you be there? We are joining the the tour starting from Barcelona, then to Madrid, few other cities, and south for another 12 days.
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Mar 23, 2014 @ 16:42:45
Too bad, I will be in Barcelona from May 5-10 and then I go down to south Italy, Puglia, where a group of Americans will be touring the region with me. It would have been a good chance to meet.
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Mar 23, 2014 @ 17:25:59
It would… It happened when I traveled to China last summer. One of my blog friends was in Shanghai, we had only two days there and had to meet my hubby’s friend, they had been friends in jr. high 🙂 Happy travel, Valentina!
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Mar 23, 2014 @ 17:31:05
You never know, there is always another chance. Happy travel to you as well Amy. 🙂
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