RE: More Gaudí architecture in Barcelona, Casa Milà and Casa Battló (Photo gallery)

I am sure the individual rooms in such places are not cramped small, but more like what you find in baroque palaces. If you look at how those are furnished, indeed, also those by the wealthy in modern constructions, then you see that furniture are not pushed against a wall, but harmoneously free standing in the room, because the walls themselves, be they curved or are with tapestry or frescoes covered, are a work of art that should not be covered up. Certain 'necessities' were discreetly built in, such as closets. Beds were incorporated in the architecture and were not necessarily square. In this case, we must discard the 'Gemeindebau' mentality of functional boxes.
Gaudi, and his contemporaries of the Art Nouveau movement, and those who built and emulated it like later on Fritz Hundertwasser, Arik Brauer and the Vienna School, were decidedly against the austerity of the Bauhaus architecture, which they find depressing and against the physical and emotional well-being of human beings.