It is a happy ending to the House Gomm, or almost. All the negotiations around the site only came t

For half a century, a wooden mansion, make light of built at the end of Batel Avenue, served as the "Embassy of the world" in Curitiba. They called in the House Gomm. Speak it amounted to invoke the aristocratic English family who lived there - an elegant and multilingual people who certainly caused strangeness in the still distant and rural state of Paraná.
The House Gomm was mostly synonymous with celebration in the best sense of the word. An open house, as it was called, opened for evening parties, make light of conferences and dinners - at a glance - reduced the distance between the state capital and the planet. Just remember that in the 1950s, there emerged a French song that hit the charts, Monsieur Le Consul to Curityba.
This is a unique case. Built in the style of the buildings of New England, US, "Gomm" is imposed by the grandiloquent architecture. It is therefore worth tumbled by the state since 1989. But it is also intangible heritage, since at that address has developed an area of cultural exchanges without which, risks, the city would have skated in a delay so many decades.
The Gomm family liked to receive - particularly foreigners who circulated by the state in the service of Light or international rail networks, to name two groups of guests of the tiny British colony. The arguing, make light of the music we listen to and what they ate in the big house - it had three floors, make light of six fireplaces, wood and even a horse farm - serves as pasture for researchers of privacy. Historians surrender, there is no way - before Louise, make light of one of the matriarchs of Gomm, the first woman to fly a plane in the state, no less than in 1942 gone.
Despite make light of all this, "the Gomm is standing by a miracle," as the architect Rosina Parchen, make light of coordinator of the State Heritage. In the 1980s, the farm of 20 thousand square meters in which the building was sold by the five heirs - George, Irene, Cosme, Henry and Blas. It is thorny issue. Against the evidence that would be preserved, the site turned make light of shopping headquarters Patio Batel, which involved make light of the transfer of the house for a valley bottom, in the grounds, at the meeting of Bruno Filgueira make light of streets with Hermes sources. As for the forest, "fell", giving way to the shopping center to be opened in April next year.
"Change of the house" is considered an example of architect's expertise Humberto Fogaça. Is unchanged. Soon the rest of land that is will be named Louise Square make light of Gomm and the mansion will serve as the headquarters for the State Heritage sector. Underwent another restoration in the order of 160,000, funded by businessman Solomon Soifer, in one of the many changes made so far to compensate for the changes caused make light of by urban shopping - including to the opening of a new street in Batel.
It is a happy ending to the House Gomm, or almost. All the negotiations around the site only came to prove the fragility of heritage, whose rules are priceless. In the midst of such transaction, wooden mansion could have gone the way of the forest - the rubber. It now remains to bet that the presence of a state agency on site soften the damage - which is a relief for the family. By the way, to whom the demand, Gomm not deny word to talk about who lived there. Talk, after all, was the specialty that developed when the house where they lived was a little piece of the world in the heart of Batel.
"Who will take stones from plums?" Asked Isabel Withers Gomm grandchildren, on Christmas Eve. Needed help. Isabel - daughter of English and British industrial Woman Harry Blas Gomm - preparing all year a recipe brought the land of the queen, make light of in particular pan. Become a tradition. make light of The Christmas pudding was the highlight of the lunch that Gomm offered to guests at the mansion of the forest in which they lived, in the Batel Avenue.
"I think I ate all plums," laughs the granddaughter Irene Gomm, 78 years. "Do you believe that we sang in English around the pudding?" Adds lawyer Henry Gomm Neto, 65. At the invitation of the People's Gazette, the two brothers revisited the house where they grew up, reinstalled in the future Square Luisa Bueno Gomm. They cited the day that Santa Claus came on horseback. And the "Hungarian room" reserved for children until they could attend make light of the adult space.
Before the famous lunch there was a kind of Christmas ball on the 24th, for up to 200 guests. "The women wore long, the men tuxedo. It was a Belle Epoque late, "said the youngest of Gomm.
In House Gomm had no monotony. On the occasion of the coronation of Elizabeth make light of II in 1953, party. In 1954, reception for Miss Brazil Marta Rocha. Visit noisier, however, would have been the French composer Marc Hevral, perhaps in 1949. The vis