The city of Buenos Aires, rich in fantastic architecture, never ceases to amaze with its constructions; as is the case of your art nouveau from Suipacha street, built more than a hundred years ago, where it continues to exude elegance and hide the history of its secrets.
Completed one year after the sinking of the RMS Titanic, this building is a grand expression of late 19th century modernist architecture.
The style is shared with other buildings in Buenos Aires such as Casa Calise, El Palacio de los Lirios or Casa de los Azulejos, but the Suipacha house 936 – 940 It has, however, a peculiarity: the only history we have of its interior reveals it not only as a "petit-hotel" with six rooms and five bathrooms, but also as a night spot, a house of quotes, as Iuri Izrastzoff tells us in “Fervor for Buenos Aires”.
The person in charge of making this jewel was Bernardo Milli, whose name is engraved on the facade.
It stands out "the excellent cedar carpentry of the openings and the design of the pink granite that covers the front, developed in curves and volutes that seem to stretch felinely" as expressed by Iuri Izrastzoff.
They say that in front of his abstract style and certain pomp, he found an unsuspecting gentleman on one of his nights in Buenos Aires, who, taciturn, was fascinated not so much by the facade of the Suipacha house, but rather by the beautiful lady he found. smoking at the door The man, recently arrived from the north of the country, was dazzled by that beauty from Buenos Aires, and awkwardly approached the girl.
He prepared to express his fascination to her.
– What a beautiful night, but nothing compared to you and your beauty-
The woman, accustomed to men who stared at her and to their mechanical flattery that sometimes she recognized in herself as correct and other times not, asked the man if he wanted to come in. Sure, break time was over.
"Of course!" The gentleman said. "Perhaps you will think that I am not serious, but I have never seen such beauty," he continued.
She simply glided, feline as the house she inhabited, into the appropriate room as he followed her.
There she exhibited her charms, the man consummating her desires, he would never forget her.
When finished, the woman seriously asked him for the corresponding fee for his diligent service. It was hard for the man to understand, he was sure that the woman had really wanted to consummate the act and that it was not a mere service. His enthusiasm to tell his friends about the ease with which he had seduced this wonderful lady faded, and he felt extremely ashamed.
Especially since the total of his wallet did not cover even half of what he had to pay.
They say that, by way of payment, he spent the night cleaning Suipacha's house even when he entered its corners, and that what began for the man as a beautiful night ended as an unexpected anecdote that he would no longer know how to forget.
Little do we know how many such stories can still be recovered and how many will never be discovered behind those undulations and abstract decorations that cover its surface, crowned under its dome, "with wrought iron finial".
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Sources:
https://www.fervorxbuenosaires.com/suipacha-936/
https://art.nouveau.world/casa-31
https://pablobedrossian.com/2020/09/16/la-casa-de-suipacha-936-940-otra-joya-art-nouveau-de-buenos-aires-por-pablo-r-bedrossian/
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