Cal Carpa, also known as Perfumeria Porta, is a modernist building designed by Pere Caselles i Tarrats, protected as a local landmark of the municipality of Reus. Built by Joan Carpa Calbó in 1905 on the street of Monterols, then called Marià Fortuny, the building is unique for its construction on a very narrow plot, allowing only two openings per floor. On the second floor, these openings group into one.
Between the first floor balconies, there is a vegetal rod that passes behind one of the sections of the brickwork decorating the facade. It spreads symmetrically toward the lintels of the balcony doors and occupies the free space under the second floor balcony with coiled leaves. The first floor balcony railing features a curved section with applied sheets of cut metal.
The decoration of the second floor is very simple. On the third floor, worked stone reappears in the decoration of the balcony doors, extending toward the overhang of the facade. Despite renovations in the lower floors, a sample of the pit column manufactured at the foundry of Josep Blanch from Reus remains visible. It is located off-center relative to the entrance, featuring a shaft and a capital, and was designed to be left exempt from the beginning.
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Written by Nik Frost
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