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Posted from Santa Coloma de Cervelló, Cataluña, Spain.

The work is poorly executed, the researchers claim, because Gaudí’s workers were in fact patients. The bench at the hospital dates from 1912, while that at Park Güell was made in 1914. A further link with Gaudí is that his patron, Eusebi Güell, was closely associated with the management of the hospital and at one point provided one of his houses as an isolation ward during a cholera outbreak at the hospital.

Luckily they include many journalistic caveats. The reality is that

between 1911 in 1913, Gaudí entrusted (Josep M.) Jujol with the production of the circular medallions in the ceiling of the Hypostyle hall in Park Güell and the ceramic facing on the bench in the park. The medallions are veritable ‘objets trouve’ made from trencadis, mosaic created in this instance from shards of mirror cups and a porcelain doll. The monumental bench, which is often featured in tourist guidebooks, is decorated with a mosaic made of fragments of ceramic.

From the book Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí by William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belén Lord, the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Jujol was also responsible for the trencadis on the facade of the Casa Battló, the wrought ironwork balconies of the Casa Milà, and many other aspects of Gaudí’s works from 1904 onwards. Not to mention his own buildings where he was the lead architect.

But back to the hospital in Sant Boi. Here is my conjecture. I would guess that Güell was talking to the director of the hospital and they wondered what the patients would do with trencadis in a similar situation to what was already being produced at Park Güell. The hospital is a little over a kilometer, a short walk, south of the crypt at la Colònia Güell where Gaudí, Jujol and others were still working. Jujol was only supervising, directing the tile workers at Park Güell and I bet he just explained what he was thinking to the patients and off they went.

So no, Gaudí was not testing designs. He already had complete faith in Jujol.

and at the top with the steeple of the church of Sant Narcis and the Pyrenees in the background.

Posted from Gerona, Cataluña, Spain.

Quite the modern cross. Gaudí used one of this design on top of the Portal Miralles and I think this one at Colònia Güell is a copy.