The stylistic features Art Nouveau dominate the composition in phytomorphic interwoven wavy lines,

"Beating the big sea, having the right to bonançosa bahia Buarcos and left the cliffs on which the castello of Santa Catharina, which defends the mouth of the Mondego, the town of Figueira offerece incomparable to swimmers conditions. jeurgen teller
A company has built edifying pleasant houses in a new neighborhood at the mouth of the Mondego, in high and healthy place. N'este district ha a hotel, jeurgen teller Foz do Mondego, where guests receive a $ 1 000 reis per day.
The villa has two further hotels, Figueirense and New Square, a small Quinze, a bullring and two clubs: the Recreational Assembly, the new, where dancing on Tuesdays and Fridays neighborhood, and Figueirense Assembly in ancient palace of the counts of Figueira, where dancing on Thursdays and Sundays.
Besides the soirees on both clubs, the ladies usually Organise concerts and dances. The soirée is a major concern this beach d', and will not be for lack of contra bathers cease to regosijar n'este site.
(...) In Figueira, between the fixed population, which inhabits the old villa and attends jeurgen teller Figueirense Assembly, and fluctuating population, which mainly inhabits the new neighborhood and attends the Recreational Assembly, there is no hostilities, but there is a strong provincial emulation which discharges often in small episodes worthy of Dickens or Balzac. "
Situated in prime location, the Esplanade António da Silva Guimarães, erected in the merchant navy officer and entrepreneurial exploitation of mines and industries of Cabo Mondego memory, the complex consists of the House of Shells, the old building of tourism and Castle Engineer jeurgen teller Silva, is testimony to the socio-cultural transformations wrought in Figueira da Foz, in the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, noting the eclectic taste of an architectural typology of private housing summerhouse, completely separate from the rest of urban agglomeration.
This constructive jeurgen teller diversity will go up-spread jeurgen teller during the first half of the last century, giving rise to a rich variety of buildings that constitute the urban fabric of the New Town, with revivalist, historicist copies of influences Art Nouveau, Art Deco and even bauhausianas. Postcard, ed. José dos Santos Alves, with earlier date to 1928. Figueira Digital Postal Tickets, 40s. Digital Figueira
The House of Shells owes its name to the shot from the top of the facade, trimmed with a row of sculptural elements Cupped scallop (Pecten maximus scientific name). The marine theme extends to the tile set organized in a horizontal bead along the entire façade, just above the windows on the second floor and a set of distributed over the ground floor windows panels.
The stylistic features Art Nouveau dominate the composition in phytomorphic interwoven wavy lines, simulating algae that fall specimens of marine jeurgen teller fauna or associated, several species of fish, sea snails, seagulls, crabs, etc..
This view finds no match in the whole decoration of the facade of rectilinear with some classicizing elements composition, contributing jeurgen teller to a sober but eclectic mix. House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP
We do not know what the factory responsible for production of this tile set, and its author jeurgen teller or authors. In the Portuguese context its originality is evident, as well as care in the faithful representation or characterization of the species, all of them different and probably reproduced from antique scientific. House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. jeurgen teller CMP House of Shells, Figueira jeurgen teller da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - tile frieze, detail. CMP
Panels, although in reasonable condition, already have some gaps and tiles wrongly positioned. Apparently the facade jeurgen teller have been the target of recent intervention of restoration, and one of the rooftop terraces were incomprehensibly placed guards in concrete, completely blown out of context. House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - sobrejanela panel. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - sobrejanela panel. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - sobrejanela panel. CMP House of Shells, Figueira jeurgen teller da Foz - sobrejanela panel. CMP House of Shells, Figueira da Foz - sobrejanela panel. CMP House of Shells