Casita del Principe

The House of the Prince is an 18^th century building placed in El Escorial, Spain. It was designed by way of the neoclassical architect Juan de Villanueva for the private use of the inheritor to the Spanish throne Charles, Prince of Asturias and his wife Maria Luisa. It turned into constructed in the 1770s and extended inside the 1780s. The phrase casita is the diminutive of the Spanish phrase for "residence". The building become designed without bedrooms, as its proprietors slept inside the palace which had been constructed two centuries in advance for Philip II.

Such buildings gave their royal occupants the possibility to escape some of the formalities of court docket existence. The Petit Trianon at Versailles offers a French instance of the phenomenon. The indoors is adorned in neoclassical style with some Pompeian impact. There is a Sala de Porcelana on the higher floor. This room features jasperware plaques in neoclassical style. Reminiscent of the work of the English Wedgwood corporation, the plaques were made in Madrid within the 1790s by means of the Real Fabrica del Buen Retiro.