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Espai Carolines was originally a textile factory that specialized in silk fabric production.
Sederies Bernades was completed in 1925 during the textfile boom in Catalonia. At its peak it housed 40 workers at a time and ran for two eight-hour shifts a day. During the postwar years the Bernades family converted it to a textile warehouse.
The building was also home for many years to Joan Triadú, the famous catalan pedagogue, literary critic, and poet. A friend of former president of Catalonia Jordi Pujol, he often used the space to host clandestine meetings against the Franco dictatorship.
In the early 1990s the textile warehouse shut its doors. In 1994 the Escuela de Diseño BAU (a nearby school of design) converted it to classroom space. When the classes were moved to the new 22@ area in Poble Nou, the space was left empty again, until its conversion to Espai Carolines in 2005.
(Photos: Joan Triadú files)
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