Casa Mila / Others Materials
Doorknob
Brassf - Private Collection
Brassf - Private Collection
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The ergonomic shape of this doorknob makes you feel that Gaudi modelled the cla...
The ergonomic shape of this doorknob makes you feel that Gaudi modelled the cla...
52 x 31 x 3cm - Wood and cut mirror -
The form and the bevelling technique of these mirrors can be recognised in the woodwork of the doors and screens. Musée d' Orsay Paris. - old "Collection Kiki and Pedro Uhart, Paris"- 2010 Art Nouve...
Column
114 x 34 x 34cm - Wood plaster and gold leaf - Private Collection
114 x 34 x 34cm - Wood plaster and gold leaf - Private Collection
This pedestal was modelled as a naturalistic sculpture reminds us of the different doorknobs and the ceilings of the Casa Milà....
31 x 43 x 22cm - Wood, gold leaf and terracotta - Musée d'Orsay Paris
This lovely piece modelled like the whirlpool ceilings of the Mila house once it is inverted reveals the figure of the Nativity. - old "Collection Kiki and Pedro Uhart, Paris"...
All of the ceilings of the Mila home contain a harmonious, wave-like motion....
Detail of original ceilings with the word AVE
We will often find the biomorphic orifices in these ceilings, like mouths and parted lips, in other Gaudi sculptures: mirrors, clocks, columns, etc....
Gaudi's Casa Mila honors the Virgin of Rosario, and we will continually find references to this figure, associated with the furniture made for the lady of the house, Rosario Segimon....
Detail of one of the Mila apartments around 1930
The sculpted stone column was sheathed in plaster. Perhaps the tenants found Gaudi's original inscriptions disturbing to live with on a daily basis, specially during the civil war 1936. ...
Current condition of Mila interiors
Today, these rooms are used as exhibition galleries by the Fondation de Caixa....
Sculpted stone capital
In this room, the ceiling was painted with flowers and allegorical religious phrases....
Reading from top to bottom, we see a rose, a cross, words with mystical significance, and sculpted scallops representing the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. ...
The word "pardon and forgot" is clearly readable....
Patio window detail and painting
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Detail of the covered staircase leading to the Mila apartments
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Attic of the house with exposed bricks in catenary-arch formation
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Today, this attic are used by the Gaudi Space
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The warriors...
chimneys
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