Work, 2023 to 2025

Work

Rooms we have made

Six projects in and around Lisbon. Each one began with a survey drawn by hand and ended with a visit a year after the builders left.

Empty upper landing with late sun falling across the plaster wall and pine floor

Sheet 01

Alfama, Lisbon

2025

A house for two potters

Two hands pressing the fold of a blank sheet beside a stack of folded book sections

Sheet 02

Campo de Ourique, Lisbon

2025

The bookbinder’s room

Kitchen in ochre limewash with one long shelf of stoneware bowls in late light

Sheet 03

Graça, Lisbon

2024

Kitchen in warm limewash

Stacks of blank paper sorted on a long wooden table in low sun

Sheet 04

Príncipe Real, Lisbon

2024

Paper archive

Narrow stairwell seen from above, shutters half open at the landing window

Sheet 05

Sintra

2023

Stair and shutters

Timber shelves of unfired grey clay pots and bowls drying in soft light

Sheet 06

Arroios, Lisbon

2023

Shelves for a ceramics studio

Work in progress

Two projects are on site this year. We post a short note from each one every few weeks in the journal.

A Lisbon townhouse room under restoration: half-plastered lime walls, lifted pine boards and timber props under a beam

Restoration, Alfama

Casa da Calçada

A 1790 townhouse, five floors of lime and pine, repaired one floor at a time.

New house, Alentejo

Monte do Freixo

A low house of rammed earth and cork, set beside an old olive grove.

It starts with a visit

Shall we walk through your rooms together?

Tell us about the place, the people who live there and what is not working. We reply within three working days.

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