Os testamentos dos contratadores do pau-brasil David Purry, Joseph Mellish e Gerard De Visme e algumas notas sobre a influência do mobiliário setecentista inglês em Portugal. O caso dos “leitos imperiais”

• Autor(a) principal: Valente, Adelina
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/revistaartesdecorativas.2009.3355

The close links of the 18th century foreign community and the Portuguese elite are revealed in the three British merchants wills, now transcribed. Their important Lisbon palaces and gardens were a show-case of the British fashion abroad. The “state beds”, eventually more than one in each residence, were one of the prestigious and essential typology to display its owner status. Valuable and bright silk and even golden and silver embroideries completely covered the wooden structure of this kind of bed. From the middle of the eighteenth century on the neoclassical fashion gave place to a compromise between upholsterers and a more visible cabinet-makers’ work.