Restore, not replace
Senat was born of a simple demand: to preserve rather than replace. Where it would have been easier to demolish, we restored. Every timber, every surface and every stone passed through specialist hands to give the house back what time had taken, always true to the original.
The stone of Braga
In the exterior walls, the city's granite, cleaned and restored. The same stone that built ancient Bracara Augusta, the Roman city that once stood here: the house's deepest layer, history you can touch with your hand.
280 m² of marble and wood that are paint
In the common areas, the marble of the dados and the wood of the panels are, in fact, hand-painting. Faux marble and faux wood, the decorative craft of old noble houses, recreate the original scheme line by line. It is not what it seems, and that is where its rarity lies.
Joinery recovered piece by piece
Doors, frames, mouldings and skirting: the original joinery was recovered, keeping its original design and material. The kind of detail you feel in the hand.
A wooden ceiling, returned to its form
Fully restored, the wooden ceiling recovered its original form and colour: a piece that rises over the house.
The staircase, restored step by step
The stairwell, with its curving handrail, turned balusters and treads, was restored as the backbone of the house. You climb up through its history.
And at the centre of it all, the Egyptian Salon, painted in 1937: the greatest piece of this restoration.
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