Park Guell. Gaudí. Barcelona. 14 x 9 x 15 cm.

Description

Model of the Park Güell, made of marble reconstituted with resin.

Measurements: 14 x 9 x 15 cm.

Park Güell, by Gaudí, Barcelona. Antoni Gaudí Cornet (1852-1926) worked between 1901 and 1914, commissioned by Don Eusebio Güell, on the unfinished project of a housing estate intended to house some sixty families. Although the houses were never built, Gaudí erected several buildings on land that was not very suitable for construction (known as muntanya Pelada).

The complex, which harmonises the architecture and its natural surroundings, became a public park after the death of its developer (1922). A park so unique that it was declared a ‘Monument of World Interest’ by UNESCO (1984).

Among the buildings or pavilions next to the main gate is the ‘Casa del Guarda’, where the overflowing imagination of the architect, with his particular vision of the volumes and the polychrome of the decorative materials, managed to recreate in stone, as had never been done before, a literary fairy-tale atmosphere.