A word from Gaudí...
“There are not so many polyhedron shapes neither erroneously
called geometric shapes in Nature. Even flat shapes created by
mankind -doors, tables, boards…- end up being defective through
time."
Antoni
Gaudí
Issue 36, June 2005
15.309 items
SUMMARY
- HIGHLIGHTS:
- PRESENTATION OF THE III GAUDÍ PRIZES
OF POETRY AND SHORT NARRATIVE
- NEW ITEMS ON THE WEB
- GAUDINIAN NEWS
- GAUDINIAN AGENDA
- VISIT OUR ON LINE SHOP
- OUR MEMBERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
- LINKS OF INTEREST
- CURIOSITIES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. HIGHLIGHTS:
- NEW COCA OF SAN JUAN TO CELEBRATE THE MONTH
OF GAUDÍ
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153 rd ANNIVERSARY OF ANTONI GAUDÍ
WITH COCA
According to the traditions, the association Gaudí
& Barcelona Club invites all the architect's admirers
to celebrate the anniversary of his birth with a coca, in
the habit of Catalonia at the time of San Juan. |
The architect was born at 9.30 AM on June 25 th in the Camp
of Tarragona. Almost 74 years later, on June 10 th 1926 , he died
victim of a terrible traffic accident.
This year we present a collection coca made of products from
the Mediterranean tropical market of Gaudi's land of birth of
Tarragona . It is made of aubergines, courgettes, onions and peppers.
Do you want to read the receipt? Try it and let us know whether
you liked it!
The tradition of the night festival of San Juan
The magic night of San Juan , the shortest night of the year,
marks the beginning of the summer solstice. On this moment the
sun, symbol of fertility and richness, is at its highest point
and can be seen longer. According to the legends, it's Christmas
in hell during that night and the witches go out and dance the
unbridled “akelarre”. Today people still dance around the bonfires
so as to purify and scare away bad luck. In Catalonia people traditionally
eat cocas -tarts- either the salty collection coca with vegetables
from the market or the sweet one made of fruit and pine nuts.
Both are served with cava - Champaign- while the youngest organize
the typical San Juan bonfires where they burn old junk gathered
together from several houses and enjoy the roar of the firecrackers.
2. PRESENTATION OF
THE III GAUDI PRIZES OF POETRY AND SHORT NARRATIVE
The jury of the III Gaudí Prize of Poetry and Short Narrative
2005 has awarded the following prizes:
Short Narrative Category:
Poetry Category:
Congratulations to the winners!!!
We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants
for their efforts and time they have dedicated to write and send
us their works.
3. NEW ITEMS ON THE WEB
Domingo
Sugrañes Gras |
In 1927 the Yearbook of the Association of Architects
of Catalonia published a necrology of Antoni Gaudí
written by his friend and collaborator architect Domingo
Sugrañes Gras, who has been at his side until the
last moment.
The text published in 1927 in the Yearbook of the Association
of Architects of Catalonia is of high interest because its
author knew Gaudí very well in his daily work. Sugrañes
perfectly knew how to describe Gaudí's fundamental
characteristic: his clairvoyance, his capacity for intuition
and his indomitable energy, which imposed forms that were
directly derived from Nature, understood as a divine creation.
Many of the biographies and critical studies about Gaudí
are based on the
text of Sugrañes, so it is extremely interesting
to recuperate this initial source of information about the
architect. |
4. GAUDINIAN NEWS
- Gaudí
in Paraguay
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Last Tuesday June 14 th , the piano concert “Gaudí
and Mompou. The sound of the light” took place in the
Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar , Paraguay
. The concert was part of the multidisciplinary show
which under the title “Gaudí, the master of the
light” included music, a photographical exhibition and
conferences about the work of the architect. |
5. GAUDINIAN AGENDA
6. VISIT OUR
ON LINE SHOP
If you are going to reform your house or to build a new one
or if you only want to change the image of the door of the entrance
to your house and give it a new aspect of luxury and quality,
we invite you to have a serious look at the modernist ironwork
we offer you.
We produce any type of ironwork you want; just provide us with
a sample and we will send you a proposal.
We accept assignments from architects and constructors for quantities
meant for entire buildings.
Measures: 9,8 x 4,9 cm
Weight: 129 gr
Price: 99 € |
A present of high value and prestige
–
Gaudí Handle
Each time you open the doors of your house you will hold
a permanent keepsake of daily use in your hand. It will
approach you to the world of Gaudí and add prestige
to the decoration of your house.
Chose the model you like the most.
Finishing in brilliant and varnish polished brass.
These pieces have been reproduced carefully and with precision
based on the measures of the original ones. |
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Measures:10,3 x 5,5 cm
Weight: 200 gr
Price: 99 € |
A present of high value and prestige
–
Modernista Handle
Each time you open the doors of your house you will hold
a permanent keepsake of daily use in your hand. It will
approach you to the world of Gaudí and add prestige
to the decoration of your house.
Chose the model you like the most.
Finishing in brilliant and varnish polished brass. |
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Measures: 11 x 6 cm
Weight: 190 gr
Price: 99 € |
A present of high value and prestige
– Batlló
Handle
Each time you open the doors of your house you will hold
a permanent keepsake of daily use in your hand. It will
approach you to the world of Gaudí and add prestige
to the decoration of your house.
Chose the model you like the most.
Finishing in brilliant and varnish polished brass. |
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Measures: 17,7 x 20,9
x 4,5 cm
Weight: 1805 gr
Price: 899 € |
A present of high value and prestige
–
Calvet Spyhole
The spyhole and handle to decorate the entrance door of
your house; a unique detail which will enhance your house
and give it an elegant Gaudinian touch.
Chose the model you like the most.
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Measures: 22,6 x 10
x 6,8 cm
Weight: 1850 gr
Price: 899 € |
A present of high value and prestige
–
Calvet Handle
The spyhole and handle to decorate the entrance door of
your house; a unique detail which will enhance your house
and give it an elegant Gaudinian touch.
Chose the model you like the most.
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Puzzle Gaudí Park Güell 1000 pieces
- 18 €
Let the magic of the dragon Park Güell seduce you
with this magnificent puzzle.
Discover every detail of the “trencadis” mosaic of the
Drac, Gaudí's most famous work.
Puzzle pieces: 1000
Puzzle size: 68 x 48 cm.
Dimension of the box: 37 x 27 x 5.5 cm.
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Square
coffee-cup and coffee-plate - 18 €
New Cerramic 2005 collection “Descobrint Gaudí”
Relive the modernist days wbhen one could taste a good
cup of coffee in cups decorated with the trencadis of Antonio
Gaudí. A special and different gift. |
7.
OUR MEMBERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
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David Solé has been in Switzerland . In a small
village near Gestadt in the Swiss Alpes, he has discovered
a car which had won an annual decoration contest of “beetles”
by Volkswagen. |
8.
LINKS OF INTEREST
Luis Gueilburt invites us to visit his new website: http://www.fut.es/~lgt/
9.
CURIOSITIES
George Harrison and the Sagrada Familia
Rock stars have always had eccentric diligences and an obvious
excess of confidence. Recently the Museu del Rock let us know
that ex Beatle George Harrison asked that the construction of
the Sagrada Familia would be finished on a postcard that he wrote
1975 to one of his friends in Barcelona. The Museum has incorporated
the postcard to its permanent collection.
On the postcard, sent in January 1975, Harrison asks "Please,
finish building Gaudi's cathedral". The text, also signed
by the Beatle's ex-wife, Olivia de Arias, includes the Spanish
sentence "Health, love and pesetas".
10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to express our gratitude:
To the Sagrada Familia Temple Building Comitee and to Jordi Bonet,
for the Sagrada Familia site report
To Ana María Férrin, for informing us about the
publication of her “Regreso a Gaudí's Place”.
To Luis Gueilburt for suggesting us his new website
To David Solé, for sending us the photo of the “trencadís-car”
Thank you very much to all of you.
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