In 1893 he set up his studio in Sitges, known as the Cau Ferrat, to collect the antique irons it contains. The town became a modernist reference point for artists, writers and musicians promoted by Rusiñol, who organized modernist festivals, combining theatre, poetry, painting and music, also known as "Gesamtkunstwerk". At the same time, the artist consolidated his talents as a writer, and from the beginning of the 1890s, he wrote narrative works and poems in prose. Some of his novels were adapted and performed in the theatre, such as "L'auca del senyor Esteve", written in 1907 and released a few years later.