Madrileños Lounge in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)

Madrileños Lounge

        Previously, all the staff of the palace that came from Madrid lunched in this lounge, so its denomination comes from it. The staff from Córdoba ate in another placeRug "Vegetables with antithetic animals", because there was not enough room for everybody. On the other hand, the lounge was used by the Marquises as a private dining room.
        It is important to stand out a shield decorated with angels on the painting called the II Marquis of Viana, and a brussel rug of the XVI Century, denominated "Vegetables with antithetic animals", that represents a kind of animal half lion and half gamo, that is overwhelmed in the gesture of looking towards behind, before drinking in a river. The rug is crowned by the coat of arms of the princes of Arenberg.
        The forniture is, logically, more austrere than in any other lounges, as well as the floor, with a modest lain brick. At the bottom close to the wall there is a worked litle table and on it a piece that keeps the English measures of the XVIII Century. On this complex there is a painting of Pope Leo XI, Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, who was Pope only eighteen days. Madrileños Lounge
        In the other side there are a total of six identical chairs, dated in the second half of the XIX Century, that decorate the lounge, they are difficult pieces hard to frame into a determined style. They are industrial models, so its artistic quality is not a sign to stand out. With long backsdecorated with lineal and geometrical motives, their front legs are winched and the back ones are slightly curved till to be connected to the named back.
        Its ceiling is wooden and it is hanging on mantelpieces, from which hangs a wonderful Dutch bronze lamp of the XIX century. Its weak light, and the rustic style of its forniture, give to the lounge a convent image, with peace and rest, as the years have not passed.

Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti