And not just his home: Puig i Cadafalch's Casaramona textile plant - now the CaixaForum museum of contemporary art - looks more like some extravagant fortified palace.

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And lastly, I asked Georgia Howe, an interior designer and co-founder of the furniture design and textile company Carolina George.

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