A must. Maybe one of the most well know building by Gaudi!
Gaudi did not built this house he only transformed it. One should even
better say he muted it. Everything has become soft so one can easily
understand that Dali loved it. There are no angles, no plane surfaces. The
walls become a skin made of ceramics. The bow window is often compared by
barcelonians to bones. The roof tiles recall scales of fish, the ridge
tile a backbone. This continues inside. The two light holes give a
constant light throught all the stories thanks to a blue gradation (dark
to the top and white to the ground floor). Gaudi designed the lift, the
carekeeper's lodge, the step railing, the doors, the furniture,.. The main
appartement (Batllo's one) settled on the first floor behind the bow
window is really a marvel. The integration to the environment (the house
on the left is lower) is done by a tower that shifts in a beautiful way
the left part of the roof lower. The organic kingdom is everywhere. It is
the most imaginative work by Gaudi.
Casa Batlló i Casanovas
