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1878

Cooperativa Obrera Mataronense

1878-1882

GaudĂ­ designed the emblem of Mataró’s Workers’ Cooperative, the Cooperativa Obrera Mataronense, in 1874. In 1878, this same organisation, founded in 1864 by the textile magnate Salvador PagĂ©s Inglada, commissioned GaudĂ­ to create a manufacturing and residential compound in the town of MatarĂł, where the entity transferred its facilities from Barcelona’s Vila de GrĂ cia.

This was the first important commission that GaudĂ­ received, but it never fully came to be due to the lack of funds. GaudĂ­ only created the building for the bleaching room between 1882 and 1885: a large hall built with three parabolic arches that ensured a clear, wide-open space without any columns or pillars.