03 — ARTWORK
Casa Barbey: main façade
RASPALL, Manuel Joaquim · 1911 →
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COMMENTARY
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The Barbey house is a single-family house commissioned by Juli Barbey i Poinsard, a Catalan textile industrialist and politician. It is one of the four buildings designed by Raspall in the area now called "Raspall block". These buildings are the Torre Iris (1910, Passeig 1), Casa Barbey (1910, Passeig 5), La Bombonera (1910, Passeig 3), and Casa Antoni Barraquer (1912, Passeig 7).
The house consists of a semi-basement, ground floor and attic, with an irregular-shaped lookout tower that rises in the northeast corner, with a gabled roof with a wrought iron fairing on the ridge. On the roof with glazed tiles of different colours, there is a chimney lined with ceramic. There is a unique central staircase with a parabola iron railing. The columns with floral capitals and the railings stand out as a decorative element.
The shaded garden with benches, a fountain, and ceramic sculptures, is an important part of this summer house. Its fence is remarkable.
The photo shows the façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. facing Passeig street.
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title = {Casa Barbey: main façade by RASPALL, Manuel Joaquim},
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date = {2026-09-09},
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