GAUDI’S HERITAGE – Casa Calvet Bacelona
In Carrer Casp in Barcelona Gaudi built a house of flats between party walls for the textile manufacturer Pere Calvet. Tha facade, facing the street is made. Entirely from sandstone, with balconies of flagstones sculpted with numerous items of relief work and a complex gallery on the first floor with relief work that represents mushrooms, since the owner was a mycologist and at the top the horn of Amalthea overflowing with fruit.
Just as Gaudi himself stated, the building is ispired by Catalan Baroque, although the organic and naturalist spirit is added, characteristics of the works in Gaudi’s final stage.
Of great interest inside the house is the wooden furniture, both of the office and the owner’s home. In the office there is screen with the different windows to attend to the customers. This oak screen is totally sculpted to the rouge and, on outer part in the customer’s view, there are two-fronted benches, also in oak and made entirely with joint pieces with no screws or nails.In the office there is a series of chairs and tables in carved wood and in organic forms, the originals of which are kept by the current owners and which have been reproduced and commercialized with notable success.
In 1900 the City Council created the prize for the best building built in the city during the year and the winner that year was Casa Calvet.
