Casa Lis, Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum in Salamanca, Spain.
Casa Lis is an Art Nouveau and Art Deco building in Salamanca, designed by architect Joaquín de Vargas y Aguirre with iron and colored glass facades. It now houses a collection of over 2,500 decorative art objects, ranging from Fabergé eggs and porcelain dolls to European glass works and bronze sculptures.
The building was constructed in 1905 as a private home for industrialist Miguel de Lis and was among the first modernist structures in Salamanca. Decades later it was converted into a museum and now holds the collection assembled by art dealer Manuel Ramos Andrade.
The collection inside Casa Lis focuses on decorative objects from the early 1900s, including porcelain dolls, glass works, and small bronze figures from across Europe. These pieces show how wealthy collectors of that era treated everyday objects as works of art worth preserving.
The museum sits in Salamanca's city center, close to the old town, and is easy to reach on foot from most central points. It has several floors, so it is worth moving slowly through the rooms and paying attention to both the objects on display and the building itself.
The interior of the building is lit by a ceiling made of over 2,000 pieces of leaded glass crafted by artist Manuel Ramos Andrade. Depending on the time of day and the angle of the sun, the light coming through this ceiling creates shifting color patterns on the floors and walls below.
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