Casa Amatller
Modernist chocolatier's mansion with a stepped Dutch-style gable hiding a private photography studio.
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This guide to Casa Amatller in Barcelona opens with a clause buried in chocolatier Antoni Amatller's will: if his only daughter died without children, the house would pass straight to the city council. It traces Antoni's 1898 commission of architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, whose Dutch-gabled facade hides a private photography studio built for a man obsessed with the camera. Look for the carved self-portraits tucked among the doorway's knights and animals.
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