LA CASA AMATLLER – THE AMATLLER HOUSE
Amatller House is the second great building of the modernist Paseig de Gracia, Barcelona, designed by the architect Josep Puig I Cadafalch between 1898 and 1900. Because of the proximity to the Casa Lleó Morera and Casa Batlló, people called them ‘Illa de la Discòrdia’ because, although all of them are modernist buildings, they are very different from each other. In 1898, the industrialist chocolatier Antonio Amatller I Costa, wanted to transform an old building of 1875, which he bought to live in. The industrialist commissioned works to Puig i Cadafalch, who opted to give it the appearance of an urban Gothic palace.
Puig created the Casa Ametller after a very personal reading of the Gothic. The most striking building is the stepped façade reminiscent of Nordic which also resembles a classic chocolate tablet. The main floor is one of the few that still maintain in Barcelona the rich ornamentation and giggled and opulent atmosphere of that bourgeoisie of the Eixample. Currently it houses the offices of the Institute of Hispanic Art Amatller.
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