Iconic building and place of pilgrimage for architects and design lovers, La Ricarda (Casa Gomis) is more than just a house. It is the house that Ricardo Gomis and Inés Bertrand commissioned to the architect Antoni Bonet Castellana, between 1949 and 1963, in a natural reserve in the Delta of the Llobregat River, an idyllic landscape among pines, dunes and the sea.

This rationalist jewel with a modular structure, ascribed to the principles of Le Corbusier, attentive to the smallest detail in terms of design and applied arts (furniture, glass or ceramics), is the result of long work and intense complicity between the architect (exiled in Buenos Aires in those years) and the engineer and music lover Gomis, who maintained an extensive and documented correspondence relationship for the development of the project.

With the passing of time, in addition to the family’s summer home, La Ricarda became a sort of cultural hub that held numerous concerts, dance, theater or poetry shows, hosting prominent figures such as John Cage, Antoni Tàpies, Miró, Brossa, Joan Prats, Mestres Quadreny, Carlos Santos, amongst others. A glanze of color and avant-garde culture in the gray post-war panorama.

Currently, the second Gomis generation preserves and cares for the house, displays and promotes it, unrestful to preserve the rich architectural and cultural heritage, amongst the actual threat of an airport expansion that aims to take over this precious estate.