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Foto: Fundació Miró Foto: Casa Lleo Morera

Foto: Albert Font Foto: Iñigo Bujedo

Ikonisch: Fundació Joan Miró (10) und Casa Batlló (12). • Iconic: Fundació Joan Miró (10) and Casa Batlló (12) Naturalistisch: Casa Lléo Morera (13) und Green Spot (14). • Casa Lléo Morera (13) and Green Spot (14)

lating, organic-looking shapes, naturalistic ornamentation and colourful ceramic tiles. r 17:00 – We briefly stop at the Alzueta Gallery (8), where we present our new Tones
The house was renovated in 2022. collection developed in collaboration with the Catalan artist Claudia Valsells. It was a lot
r 13:00 – After this dreamlike immersion in the imaginative world of Gaudí, hunger de- of fun to help Claudia transfer her concept as a painter to our carpets, especially because
mands out attention. We opt for the restaurant at the Disseny Hub (4). The design centre we did this in two techniques – hand tufting and kilim.
was built between 2008 and 2013 as an elongated, semi-subterranean structure from r 19:00 – “Mi casa e su casa” is written on the floor at the entrance to Casa Bonay (9).
which rises the five-storey main building that accommodates, among other things, the The traditional hotel concept has been revived here by putting a sustainable and simple
cafeteria. A significant part of the 29,000-square-metre building consists of green spaces design at the heart of all the rooms.
and outdoor areas, where the light-acoustic installation by David Torrents is particularly
interesting. The Disseny Hub is located in one of the more industrial areas, of the city, Sunday: Eixample and Esplugues de Llobregat
22@Barcelona district, which has undergone major architectural changes after the Olym-
pic Games and is now Barcelona’s future cultural, social and transport hub. On the way r 10:00 – Sundays are for art! We start at Fundació Joan Miró (10), a beautiful building
there, we pass the dazzling Torre Agbar (5) on Avinguida Diagonal. The 142-metre-high designed in 1975 by Josep Lluís Sert, a friend of Miró’s and a student of Le Corbusier. This
tower – the tallest in Catalonia! – is very impressive, because the façade is reminiscent of is one of the few museums in the world where the exhibits enter into such an atmosphe-
a water fountain, with the blue colour getting lighter and lighter towards the top. ric dialogue with the architecture.
r 15:00 – From there we head to the publishing house Openhouse Magazine (6), whose r 11:30 – Leaving the enchanting world of Joan Miró, we walk to the Passeig de Gracia in
premises we have furnished with carpets. Openhouse is a biannual magazine based in the Eixample district, a Modernist district laid out in a chessboard pattern, which is still
Barcelona that focuses on art, design, architecture and culture. The next stop is Fundació considered a unique example of urban development concepts in a European context.
Vilacasas and within it Museo Can Framis (7). It is the foundation’s latest project, ope- Here you will also find Casa Milà (11), called La Pedrera (“the quarry”) – another master-
ned in Barcelona in April 2009 as a museum of contemporary painting. The collection piece by Antoni Gaudí. For me personally, this building brings back very fond memories,
comprises around 300 works by various artists born or living in Catalonia, from the 1960s as I lived nearby for many years. From the roof, you can admire the courtyard, which has
to the present day. I like this museum, partly because Can Framis also used to be a textile been painted in a gradient of colours, with the lower floors in light shades and the upper
factory. Renovation and reconstruction were carried out in 2009 by BAAS Architects. floors in darker colours, so that the courtyard appears somewhat lighter.

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