Public building · Barcelona

Casa de la Seda

Today: Casa de la Seda, Barcelona

Place: Barcelona
Kind: Public building
Built: 1758 to 1763
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The guild house that the architect Joan Garrido i Bertran built between 1758 and 1763 for the guild of silk-veil makers, founded in 1553. It keeps its 18th-century sgraffito on the façades facing Via Laietana and to the south-east; the one on plaça de Sant Francesc, a party wall until Via Laietana was opened, has other sgraffito of about 1930 imitating the old. It is the seat of the Colegio del Arte Mayor de la Seda.

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