while in Lisbon, we were bombarded with the amount of art on the building tiles. it turned out they were azulejos, an ornamental art form constituting a monumental part of Spanish and Portuguese architecture, but also functional in aiding temperature control in homes. we were warned online that these tiles in Lisbon were often stolen and sold in the street markets, which was helpful in helping prevent us from encouraging to this destructive black market.

they were honestly quite beautiful, and i took quite a few snaps of them; here’s ten!

ricoh gr iiix (royal supra recipe)