ART AND ANTIQUES COLLECTION AT THE HOTEL CLARIS IN BARCELONA

True treasures can be found in every corner of the 5-star Grand Luxury Claris Hotel & Spa. These range from 18th- and 19th-century English furniture, Turkish kilims, mosaics and sculptures from the Roman Empire, to Egyptian engravings commissioned by Napoleon, works by the Catalan artist Josep Guinovart, and even Indian and Burmese sculptures.

The hotel's Museum Room is dedicated to pre-Columbian cultures. It features figures from Mesoamerica and the Central American region, human representations from the cultures of western Mexico, and statues of Costa Rican warriors who witnessed the arrival of Europeans in the Americas.

ONE OF THE LARGEST COLLECTIONS OF PRE-COLUMBIAN ART

Imagen que muestra una obra de arte con motivos mayas, con colores vibrantes y detalles tradicionales.

Unique pieces such as decorated incense burners, jewelry and jade objects, Mayan ceramic vessels, hieroglyphic texts, geometric motifs, and representations of animals, gods and human beings in religious ceremonies or palace scenes.

Una obra de arte con motivos mayas, con colores vibrantes y detalles intrincados que reflejan la cultura ancestral.

Although the Mayan culture occupies the majority of the collection, the Andean area is also part of this broad cultural range, with the characteristic ceramic vessels of the Nazca culture, a funerary urn and various objects used in ritual activities.

The artworks in the collection can be found in all spaces of the hotel, including inside the rooms.

Jordi Clos

President of Derby Hotels Collection

THE COLLECTOR

In addition to being a hotelier, Jordi Clos is an Egyptologist, collector, and art patron. He presides over the Fundació Arqueològica Clos and the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona, the largest private collection of Egyptian art in Europe open to the public, and has funded archaeological excavations in Egypt for more than twenty years.

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