Objects in Relation – A Spring bike ride through Barcelona architecture and design

Out my window I see these wonderful ovals that remind me of Cameos.

Like this Bottega Venetta Cameo necklace via shopstyle

Or…

Like a dress by by my favorite designer, Manoush from Paris

trop mignon! here’s another…

These Manoush earrings look very Barcelona, actually very Spain.

which reminds me of these girls in front of me at the Fleet Foxes show during Primavera Sound

Oh look! Mesh like hairnets around street lamps on Calle Ferran, Barcelona

like this NOOK chair by Henry Sgourakis via @Contemporist

or the filigree-like latticework of this one-off chair by Louise Campbell via @ bonluxat.com

Another street lamp seen on my bike ride today. I couldn’t find a design counterpart by the time of this posting.

Can you?

Look at this painted wall outside an architect’s studio in barrio gotico,

a bit like a Jonathan Adler design

And reminiscent of the mad-men-esque designs of Se this past season, like this “I only have eyes for you” coffee table by James Hayon for Se in stainless steel

Look at this fantastic vignette:

reminds me of this Cumulus modular lamp by Sebastian Jansson

Part of the fabric of design in Barcelona are the markets. They are iconic and epic. A fish head, even a gigantic fish head, is not an uncommon site. (photo by visiting friend and photographer, Michael Sharkey)

Inspires me to find a much smaller fish – to put into this delicate aquarium by Amaury Poudray

And that’s what I spied with my little eye on one of the first hot, sunny, skirt-and-flip-flop days of the season here in Barcelona.

All Barcelona street photos by Chauncey Zalkin

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