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 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 livin...
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...
The house's interior architecture and decoration make it perhaps the most notable example of art deco in Portugal. Late, given the reference chronology of this style, in Europe, it is explained by the route and the contacts of the owner and also b...
The house's interior architecture and decoration make it perhaps the most notable example of art deco in Portugal. Late, given the reference chronology of this style, in Europe, it is explained by the route and the contacts of the owner and also b...
The interior of the building is developed on three floors: a buried floor, which houses the kitchen, the pantry and the service places; a ground floor, where all the living, dining, atrium and library rooms are located; a first floor, which corres...
The house's interior architecture and decoration make it perhaps the most notable example of art deco in Portugal. Late, given the reference chronology of this style, in Europe, it is explained by the route and the contacts of the owner and also b...
The intimate area of the house is more visible than seen, through the gallery that on the upper floor skirts this atrium. To the left, overcoming a small gap, the notable dining room opens, overlooking the garden and, on the other side and facing ...
The interior of the building is developed on three floors: a buried floor, which houses the kitchen, the pantry and the service places; a ground floor, where all the living, dining, atrium and library rooms are located; a first floor, which corres...
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...
The house's interior architecture and decoration make it perhaps the most notable example of art deco in Portugal. Late, given the reference chronology of this style, in Europe, it is explained by the route and the contacts of the owner and also b...
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...
The house's interior architecture and decoration make it perhaps the most notable example of art deco in Portugal. Late, given the reference chronology of this style, in Europe, it is explained by the route and the contacts of the owner and also b...
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 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 house's interior architecture and decoration make it perhaps the most notable example of art deco in Portugal. Late, given the reference chronology of this style, in Europe, it is explained by the route and the contacts of the owner and also b...
