For centuries in Spain and Latin America, visitors to a wealthy woman’s home were ushered into a ladies’ drawing room—or estrado—a space adorned with exquisite objects such as walnut chests, crucifixes encrusted with gems, and trays of bobbin lace. These items were personal expressions of beauty and at the same time symbols of oppression, for here was “her room,” which was also her confinement. The estrado dates back to the late–Middle Ages in Al-Andalus and was described in Madrid’s Diccionario de Autoridades in 1732 as the “set of furniture used to cover and decorate the place or room where the ladies sit to receive visitors.” For the first time, this exhibition explores the space’s peculiar role in women’s daily lives. Glorious objects from the museum’s holdings are plentiful. —Elena Clavarino