Spotted (and admired) on Dezeen: the AIA Coffee & Restaurant in Porto, featuring a pristine white interior furnished completely in second-hand pieces.
Porto is a medieval city in north Portugal, famous for its ancient stone buildings, its six bridges spanning the […]
Continue Reading →UK designer Benjamin Hubert’s Labware series of blown glass lighting is inspired by traditional laboratory beakers, suspended by cords embedded in Portuguese cork.
Available in three white glass shapes, the Labware Lights are available through Authentics in the UK; £299 each.
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On our wish lists for a while now: sleek Cutipol cutlery from Portugal, made by a family-owned company in the village of São Martinho de Sande.
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In a Swedish kitchen, a bracelet of beads on the wall is actually a very functional cork trivet.
We spotted the trivet in a model kitchen designed by Leva Husfabrik, a small Swedish manufacturer of homes and hand-built furniture. Like the simple wooden homes themselves, the […]
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Bring a touch of springlike green to the winter interior with watery green glass; here’s a roundup of examples.
Above: A kitchen in Uruguay on the European Real Estate Network, via <a target=“_blank” href=“http://www.apartmenttherapy.c
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Casa do Conto, or the “House of Tales,” is a structure whose walls actually talk: they bear the stories of the home and its architectural history.
Located in Portugal’s second largest city, Porto, the hotel was ready to welcome visitors three […]
Continue Reading →Discovered via David Johns’ You Have Been Here Sometime: handcrafted, utilitarian fixtures from Brooklyn-based Apparatus Studio, made from a combination of salvaged and new components.
Collaborators Gabriel Hendifar (a former fashion designer) and J
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Susan Dollenmaier, founder of Anichini, specializes in hand-crafted textiles from around the world; we especially like her line of lightweight cotton blankets from Portugal.
Dollenmaier, who is based in Vermont, travels the world in pursuit of products that reflect […]
Continue Reading →Hand-painted tiles from Portugal, called Azulejos, were first used as architectural and decorative elements during the 15th century. Today, many of the tile designs from that era are still in production; we especially like the way fabled hotelier Sean MacPherson used the […]
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