Luis Fernández-Galiano   The old canonical modernity stripped architecture of desire. Reduced to a concise cell, the rational dwelling expels from its realm the dreary paraphernalia of objects, the suffocating design of interiors and the pretentious exterior display of chara

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In Barcelona, replicas of traditional architecture in the Pueblo Español repeat the Spanish leitmotifs coined by 19th-century travellers and criticized by the Italian scholar Mario Praz in his book, Penisola Pentagonale. Mario Pra

Mario Praz   El ambiente doméstico, como el rostro, es también un reflejo del alma de quien lo habita. Sin embargo, la sensibilidad artística o literaria no es garantía del buen gusto en cuestiones decorativas. El mundo personal de la casa suele estar poblado por