![]() It was decorated in the 1960s recreating the eighteenth-century Adam style, and in this room, the fireplace designed in 1774 by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano di Mestre, 1720 - Rome, 1778) was placed as a focal piece. Until it was dismantled in 2020, the Council Room was the most representative room of the Pereda building. Maria José Salazar, an expert on the artist, has analysed each of them.Ĭlick here to view the pieces in the collection The Banco Santander Collection currently includes 34 works by José Gutiérrez Solana, the largest collection by the artist in the world. All of which were dramatic and dark, with an absolutely original and unclassifiable style. On the walls of the Pereda meeting rooms carnival scenes, bullfighting, the lumpen of his time and female scenes were depicted. Solana was the creator of an entire plastic universe. Its original conception is undoubtedly due to the common Cantabrian origin of the painter and the Botín family, as well as to the enormous quality of the artist. The Solana collection was started by Emilio Botín Sanz de Sautuola and later expanded by his son and successor, Emilio Botín. They are only a part of those that make up the Banco Santander Collection. Before the building was emptied, there were nine canvases by the painter in the Pereda building, all dating from the first half of the 20th century. Among these pieces, we find one of the first depictions of the bay, by Matthäus Merian, or a mountain landscape by the renowned Cantabrian artist Agustín de Riancho.Ībove all, the most outstanding works are those by an exceptional and unique artist in the history of art: José Gutiérrez Solana. These pieces have formed part of the history of the interior of the building and are almost always related to the city of Santander. ![]() Since its establishment as the financial headquarters, the Pereda Building has housed a number of unique works of art from the Banco Santander Collection. Both its technical specifications and the style of its design make it a piece of great historical and artistic value. This is one of the few carpets made in Spain with these characteristics that are still preserved. Between 9 and 12 craftsmen were involved in its manufacture, designing the motifs of the six-colour design with exceptional realism. A loom of exceptional size and hardness had to be made, using pine wood from Valsaín, in order to make it. The rest of the carpets made in the same factory were four times less dense, including those of the Royal Palace, which had 19,600 knots per square metre. It was woven with a density of 89,600 knots per square metre. ![]() ![]() Of all the commissions, this was the most unique piece. It has adorned the Council Room ever since. It arrived in Santander in 1962, together with the rest of the carpets that the Bank commissioned in 1958 from Miguel Stuyck, a manufacturer closely linked to the Royal Tapestry Factory in Madrid. To remove it from the Council Room during the emptying of the building, 14 people were needed to fold, roll and pack it. The Adam-style piece weighs more than 700 kilograms and measures 7.50 x 14.50 metres. ![]()
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