Barcelona, Mar 12 (EFE) .- The Casa Mila, one of three unique buildings of the “apple of discord” in Barcelona, modernist recovered its splendor 1900 after complete restoration of the main floor, which was the home of chocolate manufacturer, photographer and collector Antoni Amatller.
The intervention was designed by architect Puig Cadafalch building, which has lasted 22 months and has had a cost of nearly 5 million, consisted in restoring furniture, columns, floors, ceilings and decor of the residence of the industrial, which also lived his daughter Teresa Mila.
The architect José Ignacio Casar explained today that in addition to recovering floors, walls, ceilings restore (wood, polychrome sgraffito), stained glass windows, ceiling lights, and install an elevator and security elements are have eliminated any amendment Teresa Amatller introduced in the home after the death of his father.
These actions have recovered the bedrooms with bows, as well as the original room of Teresa Amatller, while being ” has equipped the house of a museological discourse that recreates as faithfully living in the house in 1900 “.
The president of the Institut Amatller Foundation of Hispanic Art, Santiago Alcolea, said” for success restoration was essential to have a significant amount of historical information as the old photographs, many taken by Antoni Amatller, documentation architect Puig Cadafalch and the record and the building plans deposited in the Municipal Administrative Record ” .
It has also been relevant adds Alcolea, who “have retained a high percentage of the original architectural decorations, thanks largely to the care and respect of the adaptations made by Josep Ricart Gudiol in 1960, when it became the headquarters of the Amatller Foundation of Hispanic Art “.
The recovery of several pieces of original furnishings that were outside the house, donated by the people who were guarding, was also transcendental while in some cases it has resorted to exact replicas, has spare Alcolea.
Alcolea was satisfied by the completion of the renovation, “filed Dec. 1 March, the same day of 1898 Antoni amatller bought the building in Paseo de Gracia to transform at a price of 490,000 pesetas, which then totaled more than a million pesetas for conversion in the first modernist building an apple on it then appeared the House Lleó Morera ( Domènech Muntaner) and Casa Batllo (Gaudi). “
During the process works some surprises like a little treasure of gold coins minted during the reign of Carlos III were found, Carlos IV, Ferdinand and Isabella II.
Starting tomorrow, the Amatller House open to public visits over a period of testing and filming will last one or two months, according Alcolea.
General admission will cost about 15 euros and visits will be in small groups of 12 people, accompanied by a guide, they follow a preconceived itinerary in which besides the rooms will also see a part of the collection of glass ceramics, including notable pieces like an Egyptian aríbalo of the XIV-XIII centuries BC, a bottle of II-III century or balsamera the third century.
In addition to the glass, visitors can also see the walls of the house an extremely rare Angustrina Romanesque altarpiece (ca. 1200), a pair of still lifes of Madrid Andrés Deleito (1650-1660), an oil painting by Ramon Casas and Miquel Renom pictorial photographs or Ramir Lorenzale.
Although initially is not provided, the Amatller House has considered the possibility of issuing a joint ticket with the other two modernist houses of the “apple of discord” to create, in the words of Alcolea, “a ticket Concord”.
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