jueves, 27 de junio de 2013

Larrain Palace


Hi my dear classmates:

            Today I´m gonna talk about a building that I like and I choose the Larraín Palace in Santiago and It is my own house! Yes, because there rent rooms for people, but just an special kind of people, like painters, photographers, tatoo artist, musicians... The place it´s gigant and have 75 rooms divided in three diferent houses, my own room it´s bigger than a normal apartment ´cause it has 60 mts², with two balconies and a beautifull view to the west, where I try to see the sunset everyday. In a normal day sunshine came trought my windows all day long.
             The bulding was built in 1913 and for celebrate the century, in the last six months the front was restore and paint, that was until the last week, and now it looks wonderfull. People use to call the bulding like The Titanic, for it´s gigant proportions. Between 1930 and 1970 the building was the french embassy in Chile. The french neoclassic architecture was use for the old wealthy families in Chile to expose their fortunes in the begining of twenty century, like many other palaces in Santiago like Concha y Toro, Cousiño, Undurraga, etc.
                Somedays, the place it´s rent for fashion shows or as a photograph studio, and it´s funny because sometime I get into the palace and ther´s a lot of beutifull models walking around, cameras and champagne. Also I live there because it remains me Valparaíso, and I always had live in old houses with biggest rooms.

You can visit Larraín Palace wherever you want if you ask me.

bye.

2 comentarios:

  1. Wow... I would love to live in a historicist building. You're so lucky! I hope it will remain in good condition for a long time.

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  2. It must be cool and inspirational for your paintings to live there. Good luck!!

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