Width: 130mm Height: 180mm Depth: 18mm Interior: Lined Space between lines: 6,67mm Lines Per Page: 21 Page Count: 144 Pages Closure: Elastic Band GSM (paper weight): 120 Cover: wrap Smyth Sewn Memento Pouch Interior Paper: Custom-designed laid paper Ribbon Markers: 1 100% recycled binder boards Decorative printed cover paper FSC-certified text paper Threaded stitching and glue, as needed Acid-free sustainable forest paper 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 Gaudi left very few written documents, many of which were destroyed during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) following a fire set by anti-clerical groups that led to the destruction of the architect’s studio located inside the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona. Reproduced here is the Manuscrito de Reus (Manuscript of Reus), the only remaining written document of Gaudi’s. The notebook is a kind of student diary in which he collected diverse impressions of architecture and decorating, putting forward his ideas on the subject. Included are an analysis of the Christian church and of his ancestral home, as well as a text about ornamentation and comments on the design of a desk. The manuscript is now kept at Reus Museum in his native Catalonia.