Lounge of the Senses in Viana Palace, Cordoba (Spain)

The Lounge of Senses

        This little room with neoclassic style receives its name from the five paintings The Lounge of Senseswith a Goya style and that decorate its walls, and that represent the senses, from right till left they are: the hearing, the sight, the touch, the taste and the smell.
        The totality of the room is covered by a wonderful rug made in the Real Fábrica de Tapices, in the middle there is a little table, with round shape and with blue quinque’. Over it from the vault ceiling a fine baccarat lamp hangs, it is made with bronze and crystal. On the right side of the door there is a French fireplace with a mirror and a mantelpiece, on it there are a clock and a Sèvres candelabrum.
        The most impressive of the lounge is, without any doubt, the Philippine furniture. There are 22 pieces made in papier–maché, Napoleon III style, it is lacquered in black and decorated with marine and golden incrustations, that gives an exotic character to the same. Not The Lounge of Sensesless interesting is the set of the sofa and the romantic armchairs upholstered with capitone technic, a variety of decoration which fixes the filling of the sewed buttons since the external part; with smart blue colours, the armchairs are around the fireplace and the sofa on the opposite corner.
        Other pieces of interest are the four dogs made in porcelain put at the bottom of the same, next to the screen of the XVIII Century decorated with mythological scenes, or the oriental fans, etc. however the decoration of the room is well disposed and you don’t feel any saturation, due to the excellent disposal of them, like the Marquis wanted.

Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti