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Six rooms at Casa de los Leones

El recorrido atraviesa seis salas, del salón a la cocina. Cada una reúne, en torno a un tema, el modo de habitar de una época: la vida social, el arte llegado de Oriente, la música doméstica, la intimidad, la mesa y el fuego.

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  1. El salón

    In grand houses the drawing room gathered the family and hosted the salons of Porfirian high society, where art, literature, philosophy and music were discussed. Its ornament — tapestries, mouldings, paintings, the piano and the clocks — was the public face of those who lived there.

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  2. El gabinete de arte oriental

    Oriental art — from China, Japan, Korea and India — expresses a deep connection with nature, spirituality and harmony. It reached New Spain along the Manila Galleon route, which for more than two hundred years brought silks, porcelain, ivories, fans and furniture to Acapulco.

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  3. La sala de música

    In eighteenth and nineteenth century Mexico, wealthy families learned to play and held concerts at home: a house was not considered complete without a piano or an organ. Phonographs, gramophones and, from 1921, radio would later change how music was reached.

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  4. El dormitorio

    From the Roman cubiculum to the monastic cell and the marital bedroom, the bedroom drew away from shared spaces until it became an atmosphere of intimacy. Each piece of furniture reflects inherited or chosen taste: a symbolic language composing the inner landscape of whoever lives there.

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  5. El comedor medieval

    Between the fifth and fifteenth centuries the dining room was an open, improvised space assembled for each banquet. Furniture, plates, goblets and hunting trophies proclaimed the host's standing, and every guest took the place at the table that hierarchy assigned them.

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  6. La cocina

    By the warmth of the fire the kitchen cooked both food and company. In Mexico it is born of the meeting between the pre-Hispanic and the European, and its most widespread model is the Puebla kitchen: wood-fired stove, clay pots, wooden utensils on the rack and Talavera crockery.

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