It is a newly built holiday home, consisting of a ground floor, two floors and the rooms under cover. Each floor has a distributor that is connected to those of the other floors by a staircase that reflects and unifies the entire upward movement of the house. The plinth, made of stone, has a remarkable height, and the whole body is crowned by a Greek ceramic that frames the different sections as they are found in their development. The roofs follow the ascending movement of the volumes towards the central part. Beyond the ornamentation, the house is an example of modernist research in the volumetric and spatial conception of the entire building.
The Barbey House is Raspall's greatest and best-known work for its grandeur and architectural quality and for the set of decorative elements it contains - both interior and exterior. It consists of a semi-basement, ground floor, first floor and under deck, with a rectangular tower in a corner. It is centered by a spacious lobby where there is a grand staircase. The cover is complex and contains green and caramel glazed ceramics, which make geometric figures. The walls are formed by an irregular stone plinth, crowned by a glazed ceramic border, and by plastered walls in ocher. At the head of the south façade there is a sundial and on the west façade a St. George, both made of mosaic. The interior is richly decorated: plinths, skirting boards, fireplaces, mosaic columns, ceramic capitals, plaster ceilings, paintings, leaded stained-glass windows, floors, furniture, lamps...
The "Mansana Raspall" is a unique set in the history of modernist architecture in our country: it consists of four isolated buildings, located on the same block of houses, built by the architect Manuel Joaquim Raspall between 1910 and 1913. The four buildings have an obvious stylistic unity, reinforced by the garden fences, which use the same language: irregular stone, mosaic and forge, all with sinuous lines. The Raspall Houses are very representative of the work of the first stage of this architect, who belongs to the second generation of modernist architects, and are the gateway to the long Passeig dels Plàtans, where there are the most important modernist buildings of the population.
The promoters of the Barbey and Barraquer houses were prominent members of the Barcelona bourgeoisie, who had them built as second homes. The Bombonera and the Iris Tower were built by Cecília Reig Argelagós from La Garriga, who rented them out as a second residence.
