Two-seat sofa

Antoni Gaud�, one of the world’s most famous architects at the end of the nineteenth century, was also a daring designer of furniture, railings and other items of decoration for his houses. For the chairs for Casa Batll�, on Barcelona’s Passeig de Gràcia, the architect designed a type of seat unknown before then, which aimed at rounded forms to fit the human form, foregoing upholstery and the superfluous ornamentation of the time and stripping the item bare. Gaud� was a forerunner of ergonomic design, breaking with academic repertories and foreshadowing industrial design, the same as contemporary architects such as Victor Horta, Mackintosh and Saarinen.