It is said Barcelona has more than 35.000 shops. The most chic ones are situated at Passeig de Gràcia and on the Ramblas de Catalunya. Suits for €2000 euro and a leather jacket costing €4000 euro aren’t exceptional here. However there are things to see that are more affordable. When you go for a shopping journey you definitely can’t miss out the design department store Vinçon.

Vinçon, that opened his doors as a gift shop in 1941, is situated right next to Gaudi’s famous Casa Milà. Both the floors are modernly build, extensive and very exciting. The store’s wide selection of interior decoration, lamps and beautiful accessories are seducing you for some heavy snooping around. The corresponding graphic gallery refers to the store’s character of department store and art shop. And above all the service is very helpfully and not intrusive at all, which make it comfortable to wander around on two shopping floors.

Connected with art nouveau

The in 1899 designed building by modernist architect Antoni Rovito I Rabassa, belonged first to painter Ramón Casas, whos beautiful paintings nowadays are being exhibited in the MNAC. The co-founder of the until recent existing artist café Els Quatre Gats was with his works the prefiguration of the character of the art and design house Vinçon. Just like the with their product representative art and design stars of the nineties, Casas retracted itself from the strict line between art and industrial art. He manufactured art historically important pieces but produced other things as well. It were the products being manufactured by Javier Mariscal and Oscar Tusquets before and after the Olympic Games in 1992 that let them reach to the international lifestyle magazines. Due to the old and original ceilings and the wainscoting on the first upper floor of the house there’s being preserved a lot of the old atelier of Casa. From this floor you can also access the beautiful combination of a patio and terrace that verges to the Casa Milà.

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