Spain
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Spain - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Spain.
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Enter a metallic, maximalist playground for pasta lovers in Barcelona
Relleno’s first flagship restaurant pushes casual dining into a chrome-lined future, wrapping guests in a sculptural grid that riffs on the geometry of filled pasta
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Reach for the Barcelona skyline from this horizon-busting hotel
Hotel Arts Barcelona gets a luminous new look from New York studio Meyer Davis
By Agnish Ray Published
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In the heart of Basque Country, Bjarke Ingels unveils a striking modular building devoted to culinary research
See what the architect cooked up for the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastián, Spain
By Agnish Ray Published
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A striking new cinema glows inside Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum
Barcelona-based studio Bach reimagines a historic auditorium as a crimson-and-blue dreamscape
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Marta de la Rica opens The Lab, a design studio turned experimental playground
Spanish designer Marta de la Rica establishes The Lab as a space for applied design research, with a debut collection exploring how scale and gesture transform material behaviour
By Reeme Idris Published
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This boutique hotel in Seville is an unmissable cabinet of curiosities
Located in the city’s Jewish quarter, Hotel Casa del Limonero is a modern and contemporary art and design enthusiast’s dream
By Agnish Ray Published
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Spice up the weekly shop at Mallorca’s brutalist supermarket
In this brutalist supermarket, through the use of raw concrete, monolithic forms and modular elements, designer Minimal Studio hints at a critique of consumer culture
By Anna Solomon Published
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Peek inside Madrid’s best-kept art secret
Solo’s labyrinthine new art space in Madrid presents a surreal opportunity for exploring contemporary art and architecture
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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The brands and trends to know from Feria Hábitat València 2025, Spain’s leading design fair
Wallpaper* reports from the fair, where Spanish design brands showcased technical innovations, customisable versatility, and sensory, nature-inspired collections
By Anna Solomon Published
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Has the ice cream parlour come of age?
A global wave of architecture studios is treating the scoop as spectacle, turning parlours into immersive social spaces
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Jaç Hi-Fi Café brings Japanese listening-bar culture to Barcelona
Isern Serra Studio unveils a sound-sculpted interior that brings Japanese listening traditions into Catalonia’s contemporary design landscape
By Reeme Idris Published
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Meet Ferdinand Fillod, a forgotten pioneer of prefabricated architecture
His clever flat-pack structures were 'a little like Ikea before its time.'
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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This chic new restaurant in Ibiza looks like a gallery and feels like a party
Mira by Gathering marries contemporary art, Mediterranean fare, and laid-back glamour in a space designed for both contemplation and celebration
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Do luxury hotels need a farmer-in-residence?
From Ibiza to Indonesia, hospitality brands are cultivating a new travel experience, where wellness begins in the soil and ends at the table
By Sarah Wood González Published
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A courtyard house in northern Spain plays with classical influences and modernist forms
A new courtyard house, Casa Tres Patis by Twobo Arquitectura, is a private complex that combines rich materiality and intriguing spatial alignments
By Jonathan Bell Published
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In Santander, a cotton candy-coloured HQ is a contemporary delight
Santander’s Colección ES Headquarters, a multifunctional space for art, office work, and hosting, underwent a refurbishment by Carbajo Hermanos, drawing inspiration from both travels and local context
By Tianna Williams Published
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Cindy Sherman in Menorca: ‘She's decades ahead of social media and the construction of identity for the camera’
‘Cindy Sherman: The Women’, its title a nod to an image-conscious 1930s Broadway hit, takes the American artist's carefully constructed, highly performative works to Hauser & Wirth Menorca
By Nargess Banks Published
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‘Changing Fashion’: a new exhibition explores how photographer David Bailey reshaped style
‘David Bailey’s Changing Fashion’ at the Marta Ortega Pérez (MOP) Foundation in A Coruña, Spain is a wide-ranging retrospective of the British photographer’s fashion oeuvre. Here, his son Fenton Bailey tells Wallpaper* more
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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Ten lesser-known gems you shouldn’t miss in Madrid
Celebrated for its Beaux-Arts architecture, art museums and culinary creativity, Madrid continues to reinvent itself thanks to a buoyant cultural scene
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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What is recycling good for, asks Mika Rottenberg at Hauser & Wirth Menorca
US-based artist Mika Rottenberg rethinks the possibilities of rubbish in a colourful exhibition, spanning films, drawings and eerily anthropomorphic lamps
By Finn Blythe Published
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Wallpaper* checks in at The Palace Madrid: an old soul with new sparkle
Once a haunt for intellectuals and artists, Madrid’s grand dame navigates a new era of luxury following a four-year-long renovation by Lázaro Rosa-Violán Studio
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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This Madrid villa’s sculptural details add to its serene appeal
Villa 18 by Fran Silvestre Architects, one of a trilogy of new homes in La Moraleja, plays with geometry and curves – take a tour
By Tianna Williams Published
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The largest posthumous survey of Helen Frankenthaler puts her in the frame with Pollock and Rothko
Guggenheim Bilbao hosts 'Painting Without Rules', a major exhibition of soak-stain innovator Helen Frankenthaler’s paintings that also includes Pollock and Rothko
By Kasia Maciejowska Published
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Sun-soaked European destinations to visit in spring
Dreaming of Florentine palazzos and Greek islands now that the weather is starting to turn? Check into one of these beautiful European hotels and holiday homes
By Anna Solomon Published
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Esperit Roca is a restaurant of delicious brutalism and six-course desserts
In Girona, the Roca brothers dish up daring, sensory cuisine amid a 19th-century fortress reimagined by Andreu Carulla Studio
By Agnish Ray Published
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This striking Spanish house makes the most of a tricky plot in a good area
A Spanish house perched on a steep slope in the leafy suburbs of Barcelona, Raúl Sánchez Architects’ Casa Magarola features colourful details, vintage designs and hidden balconies
By Léa Teuscher Published
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This brutalist apartment in Barcelona is surprisingly soft and gentle
The renovated brutalist apartment by Cometa Architects is a raw yet gentle gem in the heart of the city
By Tianna Williams Published


