Taller Masriera, Cultural center in Dreta de l'Eixample, Spain
Taller Masriera is a workshop and studio building on Bailèn Street in the Dreta de l'Eixample neighborhood of Barcelona, built with a neoclassical facade featuring Doric columns. The three-story structure follows an eclectic architectural style common in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, with symmetrical windows and a well-defined street front.
The building was designed by architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas and completed in 1882 as a workshop and studio space. In the early 1930s it was converted into Teatro Studium, quickly becoming the main venue for avant-garde performance in the city.
The building once served as the leading venue for avant-garde theater in Barcelona, attracting artists and performers from across the city. Today the facade on Bailèn Street is the only visible trace of that creative period, read as a quiet sign of a vanished scene.
The building is not currently open to the public, as it is awaiting renovation work. Walking along Bailèn Street gives a clear view of the full facade, and the surrounding blocks of the Eixample grid make it easy to approach from any direction.
A 2020 inventory found a hidden collection of paintings, jewelry ornaments, and musical instruments inside the building, left behind by its former occupants. The find suggests the space was used for a much wider range of creative activities than its workshop origins might suggest.
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