Casaramona House - Paseo de Gracia
The Casaramona House, initially, was a house with a ground floor and two floors. In April 1870, the owner Pablo Brusi Genis asked the Master Builder Domènec Balet y Nadal to extend it one more floor and reform the façade, adding a balustrade, vases and a frieze to the roof.
Years later, the new owner of the house, Mr. August Casaramona, son of the well-known cotton industrialist Casimir Casaramona Puigcercós, who had his Modernist factory in Montjuic designed by the architect Puig y Cadafalch, asked this same architect to expand the house three more floors, adding a tribune with garlands on the main floor, the ground floor was adapted with two commercial premises, the main entrance was renovated and the balustrade was changed on the roof with new large vases.
Plans Of Domènec Balet Casaramona House
Original plan signed by Doménec Balet i Nadal. Marked in red the new: Third floor facade and roof.
Zoom of the first and second floor where it can be seen that it is the same building
Plans of Puig i Cadafalch Casaramona House
Who was Casimir Casaramona Puigcercós?
Casimir Casaramona y Puigcercós (Vic, 1838 - Barcelona, 1913), He was a Catalan textile industrialist who created his company in Castellterçol, reuniting the small workshops of his brothers into a single cotton, blend and wool fabric factory.
In 1888, the company won the silver medal at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona.
In 1911, the Raval factory was destroyed by fire and Casaramona commissioned Puig i Cadafalch to build a new factory in Montjuic. When Casimir Casaramona died, the company was left in the hands of his son August, but it closed before 1920.
Who was Josep Puig i Cadafalch?
Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867-1956) He was an architect considered one of the main representatives of Catalan modernism, historian and politician. He studied architecture in Barcelona and Paris and was noted for his unique architectural style that combined Gothic, Renaissance, and Modernist elements. His works include the Palace of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Santa Caterina Market and the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. He was the founder of the Commonwealth of Catalonia and a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies. He was also a historian and defender of Catalan culture, wrote several books on the architecture and history of Catalonia, and was a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.