This Catalan textile industrialist commissioned the architect J. Puig i Cadafalch to build a new textiles factory on Montjuïc, as the one he had in the Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona had suffered a fire.

Work on the new factory, called Casaramona (1909-1911; Avinguda del Marquès de Comillas, 6-8), began in 1910 and a year later the building won the prize awarded by Barcelona City Council for the best buildings and establishments of the year. The factory opened in 1913 and closed in 1920.

The space was used as a warehouse during the International Exhibition of 1929. A few years later it became the stables of the mounted police.

Since 2002 it is one of the social and cultural venues of Fundació "la Caixa", which bought the building in 1963.