House Museum Medeiros e Almeida guided visit
This weekend I had the opportunity to take a guided tour inside the House-Museum Medeiros e Almeida in Lisbon.
To match the charm of this house, I dressed with a classic style in grey and burgundy, a trendy color this season. For my hair, a hollywood '50s glamour waves, to recall the presence of Princess Grace Kelly in a dinner, after which Amalia has performed a fado song.
Outfit & Accessories by Cortefiel
Alongside the professional life, Antonio Medeiros e Almeida (1895-1986) devoted himself with passion, to meet a vast and valuable collection of art works. The collection reflects an eclectic and cosmopolitan taste.
In 1972 he created the Medeiros e Almeida Foundation, turning the house where he lived for 30 years in a House Museum, allowing the public the enjoyment of your collection.
The collection fits the house environment and is directed to a personal and social life, with specific collections such as watches and porcelain from China.
With a collection of nearly 2,000 works exhibited, from the rarity of Chinese terracotta, the Han period (206 BC-220) to the first coming porcelain orders from China to Europe with Portuguese crown symbols and D. Manuel I.
The sophistication and technical accuracy are present in parts of French watchmaking, English and Swiss, emphasizing the night English clock of the seventeenth century, with interior lighting by oil lamp, which belonged to Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II England, an apparatus clock in rock crystal, silver and lapis lazuli that belonged to Empress Sissi of Austria, offered by Louis of Bavaria, an hourglass, Augsburg, dated 1660, amber and ivory, and even 36 watches Breguet, one of the most famous watchmaking houses in the world.
Antonio Medeiros e Almeida reached the pinnacle of his professional career after the war, which allowed him to get in the most famous European auction houses and antique and gather an enviable art collection, making it an important figure and recognized in the art market European.
They are so unique, that we can only feel thankful that he bought them, with the purpose to share with us this beautiful art pieces full of history. Don't miss!
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