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Show NavigationCloset-chapel, Palau Guell, Barcelona, Spain
Open double doors with paintings of saints of the closet-chapel, in the Central Hall, at Palau Guell, a catalan Modernist mansion designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, built 1886-88 for Eusebi Guell, on the Carrer Nou de la Rambla, in El Raval, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The chapel doors are of rosewood with marquetry in brass, bone and tortoiseshell. The central hall was used for concerts and religious services in the chapel. It is crowned by a parabolic dome, lighting the hall through small openings and a central oculus. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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