Brukna Manor house interior

In the historic building of the first half of the 19th century, no historic interior was preserved. The founder of the Mountain Blessing Community, Andrejs Medins, in consultation with leading Latvian art scholars, opted for an alternative solution. It was decided not to go for authenticity, but to use a creative approach. Each piece of a public interior of Brukna Manor is created by volunteers - art students and other enthusiasts.

These are Latgale, Kurzeme, Riga young artists and groups of like-minded people. The classical furnishings of the Brukna Manor Library were made by the graduates of the Riga Crafts Secondary School, and the ceiling of the Egyptian Hall was painted by the young artists of Rezekne. For several years the talented graduates of the Latvian Academy of Art, Sandis Aispuris and Brigita Aispure, have devoted themselves to the restoration of Brukna Manor. Sandis is also the creator of the interior and exterior project for the future Brukna Church (or Apostolic Chapel). He had already shown his talent during the study of the interior of St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s Catholic Church.
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Thanks to the initiative of Latvian painter and art historian Imants Lancmanis, the oak doors of the Brukna manor were rescued. In Soviet times, when he learned that a pig barn would be set up in the manor house of Brukna Manor, Imants Lancmanis and his companions gathered these doors and took them to the Runale Palace. When Andrejs Mediņš started to manage the manor at Brukna, he also received the historic oak door as a gift from Imants Lancmanis.

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