The tiles we kept
Every old flat has one wall nobody dares to touch. In Graça, it was a panel of tiles from the 1890s.
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Graça, Lisbon
An azulejo panel left in place, Graça.
The brief said: strip everything back to the walls. Then we found a panel of hand-painted tiles behind a kitchen unit, a view of the river nobody had seen for forty years.
We changed the plan. The panel stays, cleaned but not restored, and the room was redrawn around it: lower shelves, a wider door, a lamp that does not compete.
Keeping something is a design decision too. It often costs less than replacing it, and the house keeps a memory of the people who lived there before.
It starts with a visit
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