Fugas Lusas / extrastudio
Architects: extrastudio
Location: Setubal, Portugal
Project team: Joao Ferrao, Joao Costa Ribeiro, Madalena Atouguia and Sonia Oliveira
Type: shop/delicatessen
Client: Rogerio Silveira
Contractor: Sergio Cachão unipessoal lda
Project Area: 35 sqm
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Joao Morgado
The studio was commissioned to create a concept for a Portuguese delicacies shop that would also work as a café. Combining these two complementary functions required the creation of a unique space, that could be as extraordinary as the products the client was proposing to sell and as cozy as a neighborhood café.
The construction works started with the opening of a large shop window, exposing the café to the square, as a preview for a future terrace.
New shelves were carved on the thick exterior walls to display a wide range of products. The bar, clad with typical Portuguese ceramic tiles, divides the working areas from the public space. In the ceiling, laser cut plywood panels; duplicate the pattern used on the counter tiled walls.
The furniture is composed by a set of used hardwood chairs from the old assembly room of Setubal’s Fish Industry Union, together with tables with marble tops from Alentejo.
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very simple and nice
Awesome! Diamond grid ceiling makes interior space look larger
wonderful and simple… the sign of a great refurbishment project. i am glad to see the use of traditional motifs in a modern context
white, smooth and very simple.
nice, really nice. congratulations, real things deserves real publicity!
Very interesting and will the owner open in the US?
This cafe is really great. We should have more stuff like this in San Francisco.