Carnet - Embellished Manuscripts Collection - Gaudi, The Manuscript of Reus - Ultra, lined, hardcover | Paperblanks

Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was a Spanish architect who was known as a leading figure in Modernism and the pioneer of Catalan Art Nouveau. Gaudi's work was greatly influenced by his passions in life: architecture, nature and religion. His exceptional style is characterized by the depiction of organic forms, abstract lines and extraordinary mosaics. Gaudi rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them as three-dimensional scale models and moulding the details as he conceived them. As such he left very few written documents, and many of those he did leave were destroyed during the Spanish Civil War riots. Reproduced here is the Manuscrito de Reus (Manuscript of Reus), the only remaining written document of Gaudi's. The notebook, which is a collection of his diverse impressions of architecture, is now kept at Reus Museum in his native Catalonia. Further embellishing our cover are Gaudi's incredible mosaics from his iconic salamander sculpture alongside an image of the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, his architectural masterpiece.