The Serralves house is a unique example of a villa-garden complex with art deco architecture. Built during the interval between the two world wars 1925-1940, with great decorative rigor and quality of materials, which involved the most famous architects and decorators of that time, such as Marques da Silva, Charles Siclis, Emile Ruhlmann, René Lalique, Edgar Brandt and the pasiagista Jacques Gréber.
The Mata-Sete farm, which belonged to his mother Maria Emília Magalhães, had a romantic garden, a chapel from 1882 and a house from 1918.
The history of Casa de Serralves began in the early 1920s after Carlos Alberto Cabral (1895-1968), 2nd Count of Vizela, inherited his family's summer farm. A cultured and well-traveled man, he had an attraction for modernity and cosmopolitan living.
The Serralves Park covers 18 hectares and is composed of a great diversity of magnificent spaces harmoniously interconnected: formal gardens, forests and a traditional farm. Designed by the architect Jacques Gréber in the 1930s, it is a unique ref...
The Serralves Park covers 18 hectares and is composed of a great diversity of magnificent spaces harmoniously interconnected: formal gardens, forests and a traditional farm. Designed by the architect Jacques Gréber in the 1930s, it is a unique ref...
The house has a north-south axis, which links it between Serralves street, its formal entrance facing that street, the central hall of the house, and the large dining room facing south and its open garden and good sunshine. . The other east-west a...
The Mata-Sete farm, which belonged to his mother Maria Emília Magalhães, had a romantic garden, a chapel from 1882 and a house from 1918. The history of Casa de Serralves began in the early 1920s after Carlos Alberto Cabral (1895-1968), 2nd Count ...
The house has a north-south axis, which links it between Serralves street, its formal entrance facing that street, the central hall of the house, and the large dining room facing south and its open garden and good sunshine. . The other east-west a...
Some of the most important European names in the field of furniture design contributed to the interior of Casa de Serralves: Ruhlmann, René Lalique (1880−1945), Edgar Brandt (1880−1960), Ivan da Silva Bruhns (1881−1980), Jules Leleu (1883−1961), J...
Some of the most important European names in the field of furniture design contributed to the interior of Casa de Serralves: Ruhlmann, René Lalique (1880−1945), Edgar Brandt (1880−1960), Ivan da Silva Bruhns (1881−1980), Jules Leleu (1883−1961), J...
The Serralves house is a unique example of a villa-garden complex with art deco architecture. Built during the interval between the two world wars 1925-1940, with great decorative rigor and quality of materials, which involved the most famous arch...
