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Eudald Puntí i Gorchs (Sant Feliu de Torelló, c. 1817-Barcelona, May 6, 1888) was a Spanish cabinetmaker, best known as a collaborator of Antoni Gaudí.

Biography
He had his workshop on Cendra Street No. 8 in Barcelona, right next to the workshop of the sculptor Llorenç Matamala, another collaborator of Gaudí. Besides wood, they worked with cast iron and carved glass, as well as sculpture. During his student days, Gaudí often visited this workshop, where he learned the basics of carpentry, cabinetmaking, forging, glasswork, and ceramics. It was here that he made his first furniture design, a wooden desk with metal applications that he used in his workshop at the Sagrada Familia. It was destroyed in the fire of 1936. Also in this workshop, the street lamps he designed for Barcelona's Plaza Real were made, as well as the Comella Showcase (both projects from 1878).

Later, Puntí worked with Gaudí on the furniture for the chapel-mausoleum of the Sobrellano Palace for the Marquis of Comillas (1878), and on the wood, iron, and glass kiosk designed by the architect for the visit of Alfonso XII to Comillas, at the invitation of the Marquis (1881). He also made the monstrance for the chapel of the Jesús-María College in Tarragona (1880-1882). In the Casa Vicens (1883-1885) he carried out some woodwork, as well as sliding doors between the dining room and the gallery using a wheel system on a rail patented by him, called Privileged Puntí System. He also worked on the furniture and interior decoration of the Güell Palace (1886-1889).

On Gaudí's advice, upon his death, he bequeathed his construction workshop to Planas and Queraltó, and his decoration workshop to Casas and Bardés.