Located in the grand setting of the Rambla de Catalunya, in the heart of Barcelona’s Eixample district, this is one of the first buildings which gained Sagnier international attention: in 1896 it appeared in the prestigious London journal Academy Architecture and Architectural Review, an honour which it shared with the Roger Vidal house, built about the same time. In the course of his career, the architect dealt with the Juncadella family on a number of other occasions, building several more houses in the same area as well as others in the neighbouring town of Esplugues (which no longer exist), a tomb in Montjuïc cemetery and rebuilding Montesquiu castle, in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
This apartment building by Sagnier, with its severe shapes, its substantial brackets supporting the balconies and ostentation of costly materials, is typical of the grand mansions of the Eixample district before the explosion of Modernisme in 1900. The composition of the facade tries to avoid the monotony inherent in buildings of this sort through the use of elements that lend variety, such as the vertical bands that frame it, the first floor tribunes with their columns and the variety of the balconies on the various floors.

Inside, a covered courtyard contains the private staircase to the first floor, which was occupied by the owners and hence richly decorated with mosaics, glass and woodwork. The four medallions on the upper part of the facade are the work of Pere Carbonell, and represent the arts. In 1918, Sagnier himself added another storey to the building, conserving the sculpted reliefs and adding ornamental urns.