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Fugas Lusas / extrastudio

By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Hotels and Restaurants , Interiors , Retail , Selected , ,
 

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

 

9 comments »

Mahdi says:

very simple and nice

 
# August 7, 2009 at 10:51
renn says:

Awesome! Diamond grid ceiling makes interior space look larger

 
# August 7, 2009 at 11:49
roadkill says:

wonderful and simple… the sign of a great refurbishment project. i am glad to see the use of traditional motifs in a modern context

 
# August 8, 2009 at 08:35
vOlt says:

white, smooth and very simple.
nice, really nice. congratulations, real things deserves real publicity!

 
# August 8, 2009 at 13:58
KLM Construction says:

Very interesting and will the owner open in the US?

 
# August 25, 2009 at 10:07

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