We want to break a lance in favor of the effort involved private artistic heritage conservation today. Specifically we will discuss what is happening we in a speech that we are making in Galicia, is the «cervigón House», built in the 1930s by D. Emilio Cervigón careers for their children. This House designed by the architect Jordi Tell Novelles, is considered to be of Cultural interest and is representative of what is coming to call the «modern movement», that no modernist.
The current owners are having serious problems of humidity that have altered rich inlaid wood floors, realized in fine wood: mahogany, boxwood, Lemongrass, roots, etc. The entire House is richly decorated in wood, both floors and walls and ceilings. Intervention posed today is if they are preserved and restored these soils or on the contrary make new. It is surprising the property interest in the original, is retained even though the cost may be higher. The reflection we why the public patrimony, which is a ‘good for all’ is not managed in the same way? Why currently building dclarado Bien de interés Cultural, retains only the facade and the rest is demolished? We are attending rehailitaciones in which to enter a building with a facade of old, what you find inside is a «time tunnel» that takes you back to, as I call the «style Moneo» all decorations, all the aesthetics of the time has gone.
At the moment we are complicit in the ownership of the «House Cervigón» and believe that the effort to preserve the interior decoration, is as important as the effort to preserve the facade. I think that it is an example to follow and all those involved in the preservation of our rich artistic heritage must be rigorous and professional. Tolerance zero with the destruction of our architectural and cultural heritage.
