Black bedroom in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)

Black Bedroom

        We enter through this bedroom by a Main Gallery previously named. It is called like this because of the colours of the furniture, the black paintings and mother of Black Bedroompearl incrustations of Philipine tradition, predominating the exotic decoration.
        A smart rose lamp illuminate the lounge from the middle, and a rug made in the Real Fábrica de Tapices, decorated with crests and different vegetable motives in concordance with the curtains and the furniture.
        The furniture is composed by seventeen pieces of Papier-mâchè and the wood is Napoleon III style, of the XVIII Century, where a Cama Regia (Royal Bed), whose head is decorated with flowers garlands and landscapes, where its rich variety of colours are fused into the darkness of the bottom. In the front wall we can see a console table with its washbasin and a jar in green. On itBlack Bedroom there is a portrait with embroidered birds made by Francisca Glanadell. Four little portraits and two landscapes with mother of pearls compete the decoration of te room, one of them an artilleryman with laurel, below it there is a sinfonnier.
        After havin explained all the pieces of the furniture I would like to finish explaining two more pieces that from my point of view are very important: the first of them is an Isabellina chair dated of the XIX Century, which, like the bed is made in black lacquered wood and decorated with golden motives and with mother of pearls incrustations. The second piece is a seat made with papier–mâchè mouldings of the XIX Century too. With wrapping arms it has a beautiful landscape on its back. Different authors think hat they could have been made for the Universal Expositions of Paris or London in the second half of the XIX Century.

Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti