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Museos Horta Sud

Catret o Scissor chair The catret is a scissor chair with a wooden structure and a seat made up of leather strips. This folding chair, used to go to the church during the first decades of the 20th century, visualizes the long and contradictory process of conquest of...

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Museos Horta Sud

Handwasher The handwasher performed the functions of the current washbasin. In essence, it is a furniture that contains a bowl and was complemented with a porcelain jar and a basin to get the water that ran through the slip of the lever. Until the second decade of the...

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Museos Horta Sud, Sin categoría

Mother and Child Painting Originally from a matrimonial bedroom, the piece shared space in the home with other Marian devotional images or those dedicated to the Sacred Heart. But the iconographic kinship that traces this Virgin and Child is more extensive. It has...

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Museos Horta Sud

Cradle Art Nouveau-style brush, made of beech wood curved using the technique patented by Michael Thonet in 1852. The wood, previously treated with glue, was exposed to a steam bath to soften it and forced its shape by moulds. This production system did not require a...

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Museos Horta Sud, Sin categoría

Rest chair  The resting or armchair, made of solid wood and with a braided grass or bulrush was the most comfortable seat of the house. As a sign of respect, elderly people were always given the preference off sitting in these chairs. The were well considered becouse...