Editing Casa Milà (section)

=== Change of ownership ===
[[File:Interior Casa Milà.jpg|thumb|left|Interior of Casa Milà in 1910]]
In 1940, Milà died. Segimon sold the property in 1946 for 18 million pesetas to Josep Ballvé i Pellisé, known for his department stores on {{Interlanguage link|Ronda de Sant Antoni|ca}}, in partnership with the family of Pío Rubert Laporta. The Compañía Inmobiliaria Provenza, SA (CIPSA) was founded to administer the building.<ref name=huertas>Huertas Claveria,...</ref> Roser Segimon continued to live on the main floor until her death in 1964.<ref name=cronologia>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190114162957/http://www.lapedrera.com/en/la-pedrera/chronology Cronologia de l'edifici a La Pedrera Educació]</ref>

[[File:Casa Milà (1914).jpg|thumb|Casa Milà in 1914]]
The new owners divided the first floor facing {{Interlanguage link|Carrer de Provença|ca}} into five apartments instead of the original two. In 1953, they commissioned {{Interlanguage link|Francisco Juan Barba Corsini|es}} to convert 13 rubbish-filled attic laundry rooms to street-facing apartments, leaving a communal hallway on the side facing the courtyards. Some of these two or three room apartments had a [[loft]] and were designed and furnished in a typical early 1950s style using brick, ceramic and wood. Items of furniture, such as the {{Interlanguage link|Pedrera chair|ca|3=Cadira Pedrera}}, were reminiscent of [[Eero Saarinen]]'s work.<ref name=corsini>[http://www.raco.cat/index.php/CuadernosArquitectura/article/view/108448/170570 Barba Corsini, F.J. ''Apartamentos en el desván de la Pedrera''.] Cuadernos de Arquitectura Núm. 22. Any: 1955</ref>

The insurance company Northern took over the main floor in 1966. By then, Casa Milà had housed a [[bingo hall]], an academy and the offices of Cementos Molins and Inoxcrom among others.<ref Name=huertas/> Maintenance costs were high and the owners had allowed the building to become dilapidated, causing stones to loosen in 1971. Josep Anton Comas made some emergency repairs, especially to the paintings in the courtyards, while respecting the original design.<ref name="patrimoni">
Hernàndez-Cros, Josep Emili  (ed.). ''Catàleg del Patrimoni Arquitectònic Històrico-Artístic de la Ciutat de Barcelòna'', Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, 1987 {{ISBN?}}</ref>