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Park Guell Mosaic Bench - Gaudi Barcelona Architecture Photography

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The serpentine mosaic bench at Park Güell catches the last warm light over Barcelona, Gaudí's broken-ceramic trencadís at its most famous. The park was begun in 1900 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell as a private housing estate and opened to the public only in 1926, after the property reverted to the city. The undulating bench wrapping the main terrace was largely the work of Gaudí's collaborator Josep Maria Jujol, who improvised the patterns on site from cast-off floor tiles and broken cups. The composition tracks the curve into the horizon, color shifting tile by tile. The photograph captures the cheerful case for using the wrong kind of mosaic.