Movable Property and Furniture of an Aristocratic House in the Old Regime in the North of Spain

Abstract

Furniture  and  everyday  objects  that  a  family,  of  a  time  and  a  given context,  is  acquiring  through  the years  turn  the  house  into  a  home.  Furniture, goods, tools, decorative objects... facilitate the everyday life of this members and reflect their lifestyle. That ́s why we should understand home not only asaset of walls  which  provide  shelter  for  a  family,  but as “a reflection of said individual, member  of  a  society,  who  thinks  and  feels  one  way  another  given season  and given  historical  economical  context”.  The  case  we  will  analyze  is about  the furniture and movables of the “Casona de El  Cotero”, placed on Peñamellera Baja,  of  which  we  are  aware  through  family  records,  which  may  be  reflection  of the other belonging to the north of Spain nobility from the Old Regime.