Antigua Casa Talavera, Madrid

An Aladdin’s cave of beautiful, hand painted ceramics housed in a family run shop in vibrant Madrid.

A throwback to Milan Design Week 2015

I can’t believe it’s been a year since my visit to Milan Design Week for Salone del Mobile 2015.  It was my first visit to the show and my week was packed full of exciting visits to  textile and furniture showrooms, ceramicist studios and exhibitions.  It was ‘a week where design took over the whole city’,…

An obsession with tiles, Valencia.

When your best friend moves to Valencia for a year, there is no better excuse for a trip to this vibrant and colourful city, with lovely people and patterns at every turn. A highlight of my visit was the Museo Nacional de Céramica, a decorative palace housing hundreds of ceramics, my ceramic obsession spread beyond the…

Amsterdam’s Cobbled Streets

A self-confessed pattern spotting obsessive, most recently on the cobbled streets of Amsterdam.

Art Nouveau Amsterdam

Spotting beautiful art nouveau tiles this week along the streets of Amsterdam.  

Vibrant colours and distressed surfaces

A vaporetto journey to Venice’s fisherman’s island of Burano, is a feast for your eyes.  The island was my idea of a dream, with vibrant colours and rich tones juxtaposed next to each other, creating beautiful reflections in the water than ran through the island.  We visited in the evening, the summer lighting was perfect…