the private SALOON

On the occasion of the centenary of the discovery of the planet "Barcelona" I have composed this series that shows, as a simile, planets or places where people meet within the universe of the Metropolitan area. I have circumscribed the sample to the area of the private spaces of the houses since it is from the private where the sense of collectivity is born in the Barcelona Society, a tradition that has more than 6 centuries of existence. This series chronographically shows a reduced example of these spaces, some with about 250 years and others with only 10 years, and which especially modernist architects at the beginning of the 20th century knew how to create not only a wide variety of spaces but also endowments. I have used spherorama as a technique of representation of these spaces since in this image the evocations of both the meeting environment and the cosmopolitan atmosphere of these converge as well as the staging of this own and identity world that is granted to this main place of the city. home, a space that is now in decline in Europe as opposed to what happens in the USA and Australia ...