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工業革命後新貴族階級的富豪們如雨後春筍般出現。富豪佩雷·米拉先生因為非常欣賞高第為巴提爾先生所建造的巴提爾之家(註: 西文中的雙L音發「一」的音，所以這裡不採用巴特婁的音譯)，請高第為他和富孀 Roser Segimon 結婚而設計了新的公寓。
After the Industrial Revolution, rich industrial businessmen, the new "noble class", emerged all over in Europe. The building was commissioned in 1906 by businessman Pere Milà i Camps and his wife Roser Segimon i Artells.
如同艾菲爾鐵塔一般，高第的現代主義建築設計在當時是極具爭議的，因為他的建築風格中帶著歪曲的門面以及象徵意義強烈的抽象雕塑。Controvertial as the Eiffel Tower, people had mixed feelings about Antoni Gaudi's architecture designs due to the twisted facades and symbolic abstract statues.
事實上，這也就是英文裡gaudy(低俗醜陋的意思)一字的由來。據說gaudy就是Gaudi的變形。可見當時上流社會對於高第的兩極評價。
In fact, that is how the term gaudy came around. It is said gaudy is a corrupted form of Gaudi. So, we could infer how extreme Gaudi's reputation was among the upper class at that time.