There is a word Joana Astolfi keeps returning to when she talks about Casa Amarela, and it is simplicity. Not the bare and cold kind, but something warmer and more comfortable. Set inside an old manor house in Beja, in…
On a former orange grove between Quinta do Lago and Vale do Lobo, Miguel Sequeira spent five years constructing a space that refuses to be merely a restaurant. Authentic is, above all else, a work of art. The first thing…
There is a particular kind of clarity that comes from being an outsider. You see the gaps that locals have long stopped noticing. Julie de Halleux, the Belgian founder of Lisbon by Design, saw one the moment she arrived. “When…
Ricardo Vila Nova named his clinics after two phone codes. Twenty-one for Lisbon. Twenty-two for Porto, where he is from. The two numbers together, 2122, carried the outline of a career: where he started, where he arrived. Then he found…
Lisbon’s art scene has never been shy, but this collaboration feels like a collision it wasn’t prepared for. Vhils and Joana Vasconcelos, two artists who couldn’t be more different in method, texture, and attitude, now appear side by side under…
35 cent banana. Duct tape. And a bare wall. That’s what welcomed visitors at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019. Since its inception, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” quickly became the art-world’s most talked about fruit. And… the world’s most expensive…
