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The Palacio de Sánchez Dalp was a palace located in Plaza del Duque, Seville (Spain). It was demolished in 1960s for built a El Corte Inglés store.
In the Plaza del Duque, before of its demolitions, were the palaces de Sánchez-Dalp, del Marqués de Palomares and el de los Cavalieri, in addition to the Hotel Venecia, the theatre del Duque and the Colegio de Alfonso X el Sabio.
History
Miguel Sánchez-Dalp y Calonge born in Aracena on January 19, 1871 and died in Seville on February 21, 1961, with 90 years of age.
The Argentine architect, trained in Barcelona and "sevillanized", Simón Barris y Bes, was the one who made this work in the early 20th century. Its Plateresque mixtures combined with Mannerist, and Proto-Baroque and Baroque. For a long time this palace was the referent of "Sevillian style" that influenced later architectures and was, as a model, the opportunity to promote new artists schools of blacksmiths, plasterers, ceramists, upholsterers and carpenters of prestige.
In mid-1966, the founder of El Corte Inglés, Ramón Areces, began negotiations for the demolition of the Palacio de Sánchez-Dalp, with the Palacio del Marqués de Palomares and the Colegio de Alfonso X el Sabio, with then Mayor José Hernández Díaz, prestigious professor of History of Art, whose management would continue his predecessor Félix Moreno de la Cova being governor of Seville José Utrera Molina, who soon held the positions of Assistant Secretary of Labor, Minister of Housing and Minister Secretary General of the Movement.
Consummate the operation and executed the demolition by Enrique Pavón Bellver, founder of Derribos Pavón, it proceeded to the construction of a not without controversy commercial building. Several projects were proposed in an attempt to calm the voices raised against such destruction. Some with Mudéjar elements and plasterwork and other elements inspired by the building torn down, with some local values but rejected by the Moreno de la Cova itself. The approved and preserved until today with its square mole in that plaza that is a point meeting of Seville.