Barcelona Pavilion

I sent the photo to her and I said, "Mmm, what about green?" And she said, "Yeah, I think I like, I like the image of that, of the water." And then when we found the Verde Alpi marble for the project, I showed it to her and I showed it beside the, the image from the water, and she was quite excited about it.

And the, the Verde Alpi is actually one of the primary stones that, uh, Mies van der Rohe used in the, the Barcelona Pavilion.

Uh, it, that's in Bar- uh, it's in Barcelona, um, obviously.

But it's, it's a really old, old structure, and one of my favorite places to go in Barcelona.

Yeah.

The Barcelona Pavilion and the Bauhaus-

Yeah

... um, which are both kind of, uh, decomposed forms that you're meant to walk around, where-

And that you can give because you can span whatever you want.

You know, I mean, you know, the Barcelona Pavilion, I'll just tell you something because I bring up these little anecdotes, but most people don't look at things properly.

But the Barcelona Pavilion, which is probably one of the most exquisite buildings ever, ever, as modernist as you like, has columns that in order to make them disappear, the guy, instead of making a square column, he used four L's and stuck them together.

And that was the column.

Not only that wasn't enough.

This is the thing that generates creativity.

in every aspect of design.

And Barcelona Pavilion was no different.