This small construction is representative of a type of building, the detached house, which in many cases we have been denied the possibility of seeing: in streets in the heart of the city—as is the case of Avinguda Diagonal in the vicinity of the Passeig de Gràcia—the pressure of urban growth has gradually condemned most of them to replacement by blocks of apartments or offices. The fact that this one stands at the confluence of Diagonal with a small street in the old part of Sant Gervasi has perhaps permitted its survival. As in many works of his later years, Sagnier, now comfortably ensconced in a French-influenced Classicism, paid somewhat less attention to decorative details to concentrate on other aspects, such as devising an interior distribution that would be comfortable and make the best use of the site.