The Casa Laporta ''(''Laporta house'')'' is a private building at 26 País Valencià avenue, in the city center of
Alcoy
Alcoy (; ; officially: / ) is an industrial and university city, region and municipality located in the Valencian Community, Spain. The Serpis river crosses the municipal boundary of Alcoy. The local authority reported a population of 61,135 r ...
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Alicante
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Valencian Community
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, Spain. It is one of the main works of the
Art Nouveau in Alcoy
Art Nouveau in Alcoy (, ), as one of the main focuses of the Valencian Art Nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art Nouveau in Alcoy, Spain, Alcoy (Province of Alicante, Ali ...
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Building
The building was designed by the Valencian architect
Timoteo Briet Montaud
Timoteo Briet Montaud ( Cocentaina, March 3, 1859 – Alcoy, January 30, 1925) was a Spanish architect, one of the main architects of the Art Nouveau in Alcoy and the Valencian Art Nouveau.
Biography
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in 1904. It is a clear example of Valencian Art Nouveau architecture of the early twentieth century. It is considered by the experts as the first work of Art Nouveau trend in Alcoy. For this reason, it would be the building that introduced the Art Nouveau style in the city.
The promoter and owner of the building was José Laporta Valor. He was brother of the Valencian painter Francisco Laporta Valor, one of the artists that introduced in Alcoy the Art Nouveau movement.
It is a private residential building of small size, with semibasement, mezzanine, three floors and garret. The interior of the building was decorated with Art Nouveau wall paintings, which must be restored.
In the building located in 30, Pais Valencià, in the same avenue, repeats itself the symmetrical form the distribution of this Timoteo Briet's front. In this case the house was projected by Jorge Vilaplana Carbonell, a master builder of eclectic style, in 1911.
File of Casa Laporta in Alcoy Tourism
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In the back part of Casa Laporta we find an attached garage placed in 12, Emili Sala square, which was built in 1905 by the same architect, one year after the construction of Casa Laporta. His style is also the Art Nouveau.
References
Bibliography
* Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. pp. 301–311. .
See also
* Art Nouveau in Alcoy
Art Nouveau in Alcoy (, ), as one of the main focuses of the Valencian Art Nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the Art Nouveau in Alcoy, Spain, Alcoy (Province of Alicante, Ali ...
External links
Casa Laporta in Alcoy Tourism
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Art Nouveau architecture in Alcoy
1904 establishments in Spain