This area is the main living room of the house, with its original ceiling and floor of big indigenous chestnut wood planks. Of the furniture exhibited, we can see the English style examples of the last quarter of the 18th century, inspired on models by Thomas Chippendale. It´s interesting to realize how the English furniture influenced both the Portuguese (mainland) and local furniture of that same period.
Special attention should be given to the D. José the 1st style settee with its cut back and reeded legs. Notice the oil painting of Our Lady with the Infant Jesus, from a Portuguese mid 17th century workshop, where there are very strong features of luminous contrasts. Also features worth mentioning is a work by the painter Adolfo Rodrigues (1866-1908), Awaiting the fish – Nazaré Beach, an oil painting on wood, dated 1893. An extremely impressive naturalist art work from this not well-known Portuguese artist that was born in Madeira.
On the wall above the settee, a carved upholstered gilded wood framed mirror, following the Portuguese trend of the end of the 19th century, and a Bureau Bookcase with two top doors, of a Portuguese workshop, but following the English trend of the beginning of the 19th century. Inside, we can also see some terracotta figures that portray popular Portuguese costumes from the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries.
