October 29, 2015: Sharing the Block of Discord with Gaudi’s Casa Battlo and Cadafalch’s Casa Amatller is Lluis Domenech i Montaner’s contribution to the visual feast, Casa Lleo Morera. My guidebook lamented the fact that the interior wasn’t accessible, but it was wrong. Just as with the Casa Amatller, I was able to buy a ticket for a guided tour the morning I wanted to visit, and was shown round by a well-informed guide with just a handful of other visitors. In fact, it was this guide who told me I could visit Casa Amatller and that it was fully furnished.
Originally constructed in 1864, the building was redesigned for the Morera family in the early 1900s. Morera means mulberry tree, and mulberry trees can be found in the decorations, as can references to contemporary inventions such as the camera and the telephone. Again, this is not my preferred style of Art Nouveau, but I thoroughly enjoyed my tour.
Beautiful photos…really lovely.
Thanks! The stained glass and the mosaic pictures were really lovely.
Wow! Fantastic photos. You are making me realise how much I missed when last I was there!
Thanks! The Gaudi sights were mobbed, but there were several other really good Modernisme sights that were mostly overlooked.
Those windows looking towards the courtyard are really beautiful, oh to be able to live in a house like that!
That would be amazing! It does look like the other apartments facing the courtyard also have stained glass windows, although of course you can’t walk out into the courtyard through them.