Creative Consults in Castles - Casa de la Punxes

Hey everyone!

So I recently got the opportunity to consult in Barcelona and I wrote a mini blog about my experience here. So I was really astounded at how beautiful the location for our workshops was because it felt almost like a church. The building was actually called Casa de la Punxes and it was in the center of town. Everything about this building was steeped in history and was entirely beautiful. I wanted to explore a little more about the layout so on lunch I snuck out and went around to nab some photos for Agitprop but it was just full of amazing features from the floors to the archaic lift that required a shutter of stainglass windows to be closed before it’s steampunk-esque engine awoke to take us to our destination.

So I was told that the architect of the building was actually some sort of mentee of Gaudi and I’ve been to a lot of the sites in Barcelona on previous trips, I have to say I could not see at all how a got to b in that duo because this energy was so much more the feeling of convention that you’d find in a traditional church, than it was at all locations I’ve been to by Gaudi. It was just totally different and I was really confused at the time. When I got home I did some research and the architect was Josep Puig i Cadafalch, a Catalan Modernist who was actually a contemporary of Gaudi. not a mentee. So the info was relayed to me a bit poorly but it was very much it’s own gorgeous style, but you couldn’t get more different. I loved the nod to the political symbolism of Catalan as I now know he was not only an architect but a politician who wanted to maintain the Catalan culture, so it kind of all made sense to me afterwards.

In contrast to the vibes I got from the building, my audience in Barcelona were people working for the brands in Spain and they were so fabulous. I even got a standing ovation during my demo’s so I was really amazed by how lovely everyone was and how much the very empty feeling castle was filled with positive energy of the people, it just made everything about my trip super positive. I really love Spain, I don’t know what it is, I think my Italian ancestry has been craving some sort of temperate heat because we do not in the UK have anything close to what I describe as pleasant weather. I really am totally incompatable with our humidity here, or our bitter cold, it just has never allowed me to feel at home. But I really love Spanish weather and no, it’s not the same as Italian but it is closer and I enjoy it haha.

So Barcelona has such a fun vibe to me and I did have one hideous family experience there as a child, but that has now been shed since I’ve discovered it as an adult and I have to say, I would like to buy a holiday home there. Because it just felt right when I was exploring and I really do love the people there.

Where do you feel spiritually at home? Rain off in the comments below.