EL MODERNISME

CASA LLEÓ MORERA:

The Casa Lleó Morera is a project of 1902,by the architect Lluis Domènech i Montaner, is situated in the Passeig de Gràcia, 35, of Barcelona. The house lleó Morera is a magnific modernist building work, that Lluis permanyer says: “it’s like the Palace of the Catalan Music but smaller”. The decoration, is the habitual of the period, a lot of artesans like Mariano Maragliano and Lluis Bru participated in the mosaics, Antoni Serra in the ceramics, Antoni Rigalt in the show case and Gaspar Homar in the indoor furniture.The frontage and ground floor were decorated with Art Nouveau ornaments large and varied. Perhaps most striking the were sculptures by Eusebi Arnau representing two pairs of female figures holding a flower. At the base of the grandstand on the first floor featuring a group of female heads.

The architect Oscar Tusquets in the mid 80s of the twentieth century, was responsible for the restoration of the rest of the building and restore the temple and the pinnacles of the cornice, which had suffered serious damage by fire from machine guns during Spanish Civil War of 1936