Flour Allegories and Industrial Genius

Continue down Carrer de Santa Eugènia to number 42 to reach Masó's industrial masterpiece. Designed for flour magnate Alfons Teixidor between 1910 and 1911, Farinera Teixidor is Girona's premier Modernista industrial complex. Two distinct building masses are linked by an expressive parabolic arch straddling a private alley. Look closely at the surface materials: dressed stone bases, white plaster walls, white majolica tiles from the Antoni Serra workshop, cornucopia pinnacles, and ceramic scale tiles by the Coromina brothers. Every element was carefully chosen: Masó explicitly designed the white stucco, glazes, and rounded pinnacles to evoke mounds and sacks of milled flour. While popular legends claim Masó worked directly under Antoni Gaudí due to the parabolic arches, Masó trained at Barcelona University and was an exponent of Noucentisme.