12 June 2025 15:00
SUN, SEA and the warmth of interesting ARCHITECTURE. Barcelona, city of Gaudi! Many monuments and works by the Spanish architect can be found in the city. The Sagrada Família is the most famous structure. Since the laying of the foundation stone in 1882, the church has been under construction almost continuously. The expected completion date is now expected to be 2030. Could the basilica finally be completed then.... ?
The architect Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926) was the founder of organic architecture. This form of building embraces nature and the artworks created try to integrate harmoniously into the environment. Natural beauty offers flowing unpredictable forms, the Art Nouveau/Jugendstil (1890 and 1914) art style is based on these natural principles.
Art Deco Trade embraced Modernism (Catalan variant of the Art Nouveau art movement). This resulted in a fantastically colourful Coloured by Art© lamp, inspired by the stained-glass rose windows of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
Stained-glass windows bring light from the dark, so to speak. A beautiful theme that is also reflected from this new GAUDI lamp. The glass of the table lamp has an unprecedented brilliance that can also be recognised in gemstones. The Tiffany glass shade is spectacular as the cool and warm colours of blue, green, yellow, red and purple form a harmonious whole like a watercolour and come together to form an ornament. The base of the lamp in warm copper patina reveals an intarsia in green glass with an iridescent purple glow, resembling a mosaic in which the rosette repeats itself. The finale like an organic pinnacle (just look at Gaudi's architecture) is a fitting crowning touch.
