The New Casa Batlló Experience (Barcelona, Catalunya)

Casa Batlló, #25, Barcelona, 2021

Gaudí’s Casa Batlló recently reopened to regular tourist visits after some two years of renovation work on the interior. Now, you’ll get the full disco treatment with impressive multi-media displays, along with the usual tour.

Carrying just the iPhone X, I thought I’d try to find some new images on this, our third or fourth visit over the years.

iPhone Tour of Casa Batlló

There is almost nothing in this house that goes in a straight line… always bringing one’s thoughts back to Nature, the sea, the waves, water, movement. Here we have three stairwells and a door with many, many curves, and straight lines only when strictly necessary:

Casa Batlló, #2, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #4, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #16, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #20, Barcelona, 2021

The varied and odd lighting fixtures and skylights, especially this first example placed strategically on a sea shell-formed ceiling, will certainly attract the eye:

Casa Batlló, #9, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #15, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #5, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #6, Barcelona, 2021

What a cozy hearth this is… and built for warmth of body, eye, and soul as well as intimate conversation:

Casa Batlló, #7, Barcelona, 2021

Another typical Gaudí touch–these chairs–apparently, like the fireplace above, built with intimate (conspiratorial? gossipy?) conversation in mind:

Casa Batlló, #13, Barcelona, 2021

You will find plenty of classic Gaudí mosaic, tile and glass work throughout:

Casa Batlló, #14, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #18, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #19, Barcelona, 2021

Casa Batlló, #21, Barcelona, 2021

Now let’s go a bit more abstract with this view of Gaudí’s Casa Batlló colors through a thick glass panel:

Casa Batlló, #23, Barcelona, 2021

The multi-media experience is not long–and possibly disorienting or even menacing to those with an epileptic bent–but I personally enjoyed it and tried capturing a few color abstracts: