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The current Casa Batlló (The Batlló House), situated in the centric Passeig de Gràcia, is the result of integral remodulation fulfilled by the Catalan Modernist architect, Antoni Gaudí, between 1905 and 1907, a house previously existent, designed by Emili Sala Cortés and constructed in 1877.
The building, is found in the well known Manzana de la Discordia, baptised by the Barcelona citizens because it gathers, in a few metres, as well as the work of Gaudí, the Casa Amatller, of Josep Puig i Cadafalch and the Casa Lleó Morera, work de Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
The house takes its name of Josep Batlló i Casanovas, a textile industrial that assigned of the house of Gaudí. This last one corresponds to him modifying completely the old building and designed one of the most fantastic houses, with very original and countless details from the façade to the interior. It can be practically said that Gaudí made a new building since he added, the balconies, the attic, the gallery and two more levels.
From the outside, the house offers a façade with smooth undulations, balconies forged with metal with forms always curved and entwined, a roof that resembles the back of a dragon and ceramic holy shroud policromated so typical of Modernism that converts in to the most spectacular and brilliant façade of the city.
In relation to the interior, alongside emphasising the attic constructed in form of arches and that, much later, it served Gaudí as inspiration for the design of
La Pedrera, another of his most famous works. Emphasing as well on the the design of the furniture, the multiple of coloured glassware or of the eight imaginative chimneys, that demonstrate also the capacity, not only architecturally, decorated as well by Gaudí.