WALYBUY SPAIN

Let’s get one thing straight before you lace up your walking shoes and pack a picnic basket: Walybuy Spain is not a park. If you come here expecting rolling lawns, chirping birds, or a place to walk your dog, the only thing you’re going to find is the cold, hard reality of the Eixample grid and a very professional-looking office building. In the strange taxonomy of city databases, this place sometimes gets tagged as a 'park,' likely because the people inside spend their days dreaming of gardens. But this is the headquarters of Alice’s Garden—recently rebranded as 'sweeek'—and it represents a very specific, very Barcelona kind of obsession: the terrace.

To understand why a corporate office for an outdoor furniture company exists in the middle of a stone canyon like Carrer de Mallorca, you have to understand the local psyche. In Barcelona, space is the ultimate currency. Most of us live in apartments where the 'outdoor space' is a balcony the size of a pizza box. But for the lucky few with a penthouse or an interior patio in the Eixample, the terrace is everything. It is the sanctuary. It is where you drink your vermouth, argue about politics, and pretend the neighbors aren't watching you from three stories up. Walybuy is the engine room of that dream.

Walking into this part of the Eixample, you’re surrounded by the heavy-hitting ghosts of Modernisme. You’ve got Casa Milà just a few blocks away, with its undulating stone and chimneys that look like stormtroopers. In the shadow of that architectural genius, Walybuy operates as the Spanish arm of a French e-commerce giant. They don't sell the soul of the city; they sell the hardware to live in it. We’re talking about pergolas that promise shade in the brutal July heat, gas grills for the Sunday 'botifarra' cookout, and those grey synthetic rattan sofas that have become the unofficial uniform of every middle-class patio from here to Marseille.

There is a certain clinical honesty to the place. As of mid-2025, the company has been navigating the choppy waters of corporate restructuring—merging, liquidating, and rebranding from the whimsical 'Alice’s Garden' to the aggressively modern 'sweeek.' It’s a reminder that even the business of relaxation is, at the end of the day, a business. The office here serves as the brain for their Spanish operations, a place where logistics and design meet to ensure that a three-piece bistro set can navigate the narrow stairwells of a 19th-century building.

If you are a traveler looking for the 'real' Barcelona, you won't find it in a showroom or an office lobby. You find it in the grease-stained tapas bars or the sun-drenched plazas of Gràcia. But if you are a resident—or someone who has just signed a ruinously expensive lease on a flat with a 'terrazza'—this place is your Mecca. It represents the aspiration of the Mediterranean lifestyle: the belief that with the right lighting and a comfortable enough sun lounger, you can turn a patch of concrete into a paradise. Just don't show up with a frisbee and expect to play fetch. The only thing growing here is the bottom line and the local desire for a better class of patio umbrella.