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The Serralves house is a unique example of a villa-garden with art deco architecture. Built between the two world wars 1925-1940, with a great decorative rigor and quality of materials, which involved the most famous architects and decorators of that time, such as Marques da Silva, Charles Siclis, Emile Ruhlmann, René Lalique, Edgar Brandt and the passiagist Jacques Gréber.
The Quinta do Mata-Sete, which belonged to his mother Maria Emilia Magalhães, had a romantic garden, a chapel from 1882 and a house from 1918.
The history of Casa de Serralves began in the early twenties of the twentieth century after Carlos Alberto Cabral (1895-1968), 2nd Count of Vizela, inherited his family's summer farm. A cultured and traveled man, he had an attraction for modernity and cosmopolitan living.
In 1927 he hired the architect who had already worked with his family, Marques da Silva, and asked to increase the existing house in the Quinta, located where the current one is. The process of additions and enlargements of the existing house, eventually forced the overthrow of the old house in 1934, but keeping the original chapel standing, although camouflaged by a new coat of walls and futuristic tower. Between December 1929 and January 1930, the famous Charles Sicilis (1889-1944) designed a project for the exterior of the house, which unifies all parts of it, keeping the north-south, east-west most important axes of house growth , and that relate it to the initial idea of Marques da Silva for the garden, which in the meantime is developed by Landscape Architect Jacques Gréber (1882-1962).