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Entrance hall, Torre Bellesguard, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Entrance hall, 10m high, with a false vault with lobed arches and a suspended polyhedral stained glass lamp, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The tiled wainscot is by Domingo Sugranes, with dragons and roosters representing the coat of arms of Margarita de Prades. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Entrance hall, 10m high, with a false vault with lobed arches and a suspended polyhedral stained glass lamp, at Torre Bellesguard, or Casa Figueres, designed in Modernist style by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1900-09, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The tiled wainscot is by Domingo Sugranes, with dragons and roosters representing the coat of arms of Margarita de Prades. The building was built in Gaudi's neo-Gothic style on the ruins of an old castle. Picture by Manuel Cohen