Dragon, Fireplace, Casa Amatller, Barcelona, Spain

Iron dragon, detail from the monumental fireplace by Eusebi Arnau, in the dining room of Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The fireplace represents the cocoa trade between South America and Europe, including a bow of a ship, an indigenous queen and a European queen. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Iron dragon, detail from the monumental fireplace by Eusebi Arnau, in the dining room of Casa Amatller, a catalan Modernisme style building by Josep Puig i Cadafalch, built 1898-1900 as a home for chocolatier Antoni Amatller, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The fireplace represents the cocoa trade between South America and Europe, including a bow of a ship, an indigenous queen and a European queen. Picture by Manuel Cohen