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Casa Vicens was Antoni Gaudí's first major commission, completed in 1885 for tile manufacturer Manuel Vicens i Montaner — a client whose profession left an obvious mark on the building's exterior, which is encrusted with hand-painted ceramic tiles in patterns drawn from Moorish and Orientalist sources. The lattice screens that run alongside those tiles are no less considered: cast in cream-painted iron or rendered masonry, their interlocking rectangular geometry reads as a direct conversation with Mudéjar grillework, translated into something more angular and repetitive. Here the photograph collapses the distance between those two systems — teal-and-yellow chrysanthemum tiles cutting a diagonal across the left half of the frame, the pale lattice filling the right in a dense grid of shadow and surface — so that the building's argument about ornament is made in a single compressed composition. The rough rubble stonework caught in the corner between them is the only reminder that beneath all this pattern, someone still had to build a wall.
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