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Stained glass, Casa Batllo, Barcelona, Spain

Stained glass panels in the huge windows facing the Passeig de Gracia, with organic carved oak frames, in the grand central hall on the Noble Floor of Casa Batllo, originally built in 1877 by Emilio Sala Cortes and totally remodelled 1904-6 by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, in catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style, for Josep Batllo y Casanovas, a textile industrialist, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The windows all open using hidden counterweights. The walls and ceiling are all in organic wavy forms resembling the sea. A glass roof is glimpsed through an oculus. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Stained glass panels in the huge windows facing the Passeig de Gracia, with organic carved oak frames, in the grand central hall on the Noble Floor of Casa Batllo, originally built in 1877 by Emilio Sala Cortes and totally remodelled 1904-6 by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, in catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style, for Josep Batllo y Casanovas, a textile industrialist, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The windows all open using hidden counterweights. The walls and ceiling are all in organic wavy forms resembling the sea. A glass roof is glimpsed through an oculus. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen