Interior Design Magazine Pdf Apr 2026

This is not a home for maximalism or minimalism. Mendes calls it “emotional materialism.”

In the heart of Lisbon’s industrial district, designer Clara Mendes transforms a former print workshop into a meditation on light, patina, and the art of slow living. interior design magazine pdf

Every object tells a time: a brutalist concrete dining table (cast in place) sits opposite a rococo mirror found in a Porto flea market. A digital light installation by a local artist flickers behind an 18th-century Portuguese armoire. This is not a home for maximalism or minimalism

On a cobbled street where the scent of roasted coffee beans still lingers from 19th-century factories, lies Ateliê 27 . To the untrained eye, it is a paradox: a space that feels both ancient and brand new. The original 1920s concrete ceiling, pockmarked and bearing the ghostly imprints of old machinery, has been left utterly untouched. Yet, hovering beneath it is a floating mezzanine of brushed steel and oak—so precise it seems to defy gravity. A digital light installation by a local artist