Lucía Landa Collection

I collect and resell antiques and vintage furniture, original artwork and decorative items in Mexican Indigenous, Spanish Colonial, Spanish Revival, Middle Eastern and American Arts & Crafts styles. Other favorites are vintage Chesterfields and other fine sofas and chairs upholstered with fine leather; and French style furniture made by the great North Carolina and Michigan craftsmen during the early and mid 20th century. All of these styles blend beautifully with one another: just look at some of the things we have in The Collection, combining splendidly grained quarter-sawn oak wood, earthy hair-on cow hides, and riotously colorful handmade Mexican and Middle Eastern textiles. I own and operate a custom upholstery workshop too, and with my team I re-create with imaginative upholstery concepts many of the pieces I offer for sale on Chairish. I can make arrangements for custom reupholstery of furniture you acquire from my collection. I am a designer from Mexico City who has lived in Saudi Arabia, Boston, and Washington, D.C. I've traveled and collected widely in the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and of course, in Mexico and other Latin American countries. I buy artisanal textiles directly from indigenous women who make them in Tenango de Doria, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. My grandfather owned cattle ranches and leather tanneries in Jalisco: this may be one reason I'm so in love with leather furniture. My business is centrally located in Saint Louis, Missouri, where I live with my husband and daughter. Most of the current residents seem unware of this, but Saint Louis once was part of the Spanish Empire, ruled by the Viceroy in Mexico City. Just across the river from Saint Louis in Collinsville, Illinois, is the archaeological site of what was once a large Pre-Hispanic American city, Cahokia. It holds the remains of what was the second largest indigenous pyramid in North America, exceeded only by the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacán near Mexico City. Archaeological evidence shows that there was trade between the Aztec imperial capital of Tenochtitlán-México and Cahokia centuries before the Spaniards and other Europeans arrived in the New World. The United States has many extraordinarily beautiful "Spanish Revival" mansions and homes, indeed, many that are, on the outside, as beautiful as anything one can see on Mexico City's famed Paseo de la Reforma. But inside? Many times, tragically, no. English furniture has its good points, but it usually does not fit within Spanish architecture. It's OK to remember the Alamo, but I remember Catherine of Aragon. I am on a one-woman crusade to save the United States' magnificent Spanish Revival homes from Chip and Joanna. Make Spanish Revival Spanish Again! -- Lucía Landa