Nineteenth Century domestic interiors were adapted to private and public needs of the bourgeois class. The different rooms, their distribution and ornamentation were subjected to the dictates of fashion, but also to the family and social expectations of that time. One of the most outstanding spaces within the home was the dining room. This was an area where the family could demonstrate their status in society and a place where its members could meet in privacy. The etiquette manuals and books on decorating gave this room a male character and this determined its design. However, while gender is also present in the housing of the 19th Century, the boundaries established between the feminine and masculine are not always so clear. Hence, the interest, value and perhaps also the mystery of a space created for the development of the everyday... [Leer más...]