The ‘Castell dels Tres Dragons’ (three Dragons Castle) built as a Café-Restaurant of the Universal Exhibition of 1888 by Lluis Domenech i Muntaner, a leading architect of Catalan Modernism, is considered one of the best examples of pre-modernism.
The sample checks for the first time its history through the architectural, artistical and social viewpoint of the building, and affects the workshop of Domènech installed with the aim of recovering ancient techniques (forging, ceramics, carpentry, sculpture in stone or glass enamel) to implement the new architecture. An episode of Catalan Art that has been considered the genesis of Modernism and decorative arts that this exhibition aims to review.
Moreover, the sample provides unpublished data on uses that had the building and the changes that have been done, some signed by the architect in the modernist style and other fees Noucentists seconds later.
The exhibition is structured chronologically into different sections where through engravings, photographs, original documents and period pieces shows the importance of this building of brick and iron, that today faces radically modern and aesthetically pleasing.
Curator, original idea and script: Rosend Casanova