Fascinating and very beautiful – it’s a shame his idea of making useful things beautiful didn’t catch on – there are so many ugly building from the fifties and sixties.
[…] as La Pedrera, all three of which are on the Unesco World Heritage list. You’ve already seen the chimneys which I think are probably the most exciting part, but there are lots of other very interesting […]
[…] other rooms are not open to the public and I described the chimneys on the roof in a previous post. Guell’s oldest daughter Mercé inherited the house but eventually turned it […]
Fascinating and very beautiful – it’s a shame his idea of making useful things beautiful didn’t catch on – there are so many ugly building from the fifties and sixties.
Yes, I quite agree.
How cool is that? It looks like you are walking through a Picasso painting!
That’s exactly the feeling you get! I watched the kids go crazy at La Pedrera in particular. They just loved it.
[…] as La Pedrera, all three of which are on the Unesco World Heritage list. You’ve already seen the chimneys which I think are probably the most exciting part, but there are lots of other very interesting […]
[…] other rooms are not open to the public and I described the chimneys on the roof in a previous post. Guell’s oldest daughter Mercé inherited the house but eventually turned it […]
[…] you keep going up the stairs, of course, you get to the roof with its wonderful chimneys that I described in a previous […]
[…] more posts to write, and one of them is Gaudi’s La Pedrera. I’ve already talked about the chimneys and the […]