BARCELONA PAVILION

I have always had the Barcelona Pavilion in my mind as a designer. It is always on my mental aesthetic inspiration mood board. When I was designing for the Royal family in Abu Dhabi, one of my clients was a modernist at heart too, and I was able to finally use the luxurious materials in a simple way for him in his homes. (Ask me about this if you want to hear more).

You see the Barcelona Pavilion, (it’s correct name is The German National Pavilion for the Barcelona International Exhibition, 1929) was built with an unrestricted budget and did not need to function as anything but itself. How glorious.

Why have I always thought this aesthetic expression so strikingly beautiful? It is only in recent years that I have formulated a theory.

I believe it is because it speaks to us at a deep human existence level.

There are layers of fundamental meanings that find a high expression in their manifestation here.