Modernist dining room with painted wall and ceiling panels and art nouveau glass, in the Casa Ferrer Bataller, an Indianos mansion in Begur on the Costa Brava, Emporda, Catalonia, Spain. Vicenc Ferrer Bataller emigrated to Cuba in 1856 and worked in the flour and tobacco industries, returning here in 1888 to build his Modernist mansion. There are many of these opulent private homes in the town, built by local people who emigrated to Cuba to escape poverty, then returned with their newly made fortunes. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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