Lisbon Design Week 2025: A Citywide Celebration of Creativity and Craft
95 must-see spaces. 250 brilliant artists.
One unforgettable Lisbon.
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This Month, our city transformed into a living gallery as Lisbon Design Week 2025 took over studios, galleries, showrooms, and ateliers citywide. We had the pleasure of experiencing it all with the Oapartamento press tour, and what we discovered was nothing short of extraordinary.
From rising talent to established design voices, every neighbourhood buzzed with new ideas, local craftsmanship, and creativity that lit up the city.
Made in Situ unveiled Xisto
With Xisto, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance traces the veins of Portugal’s geological memory. At its core: schist — a metamorphic rock forged over millions of years through intense pressure and heat, known for its layered texture, mineral richness, and striking durability.
Drawn from the dramatic landscapes of Foz Côa, where schist cliffs once served as prehistoric canvases and now support the sculpted vineyards of Douro, the material becomes both muse and medium. Shaped by local artisans, Xisto transforms this ancient stone into contemporary forms — a tactile dialogue between geology and craft, permanence and reinvention.
The collection of furniture and lighting captures schist’s raw elegance: jagged, gleaming, striated, a surface that tells a story of time, terrain, and human ingenuity.
Locke Hotel de Santa Joana Opened Its Doors to Design
Design takes centre stage in this evocative takeover at Locke. An oversized tapestry by Mariana Ralo sets the tone: bold, immersive, and richly woven. Hand-shaped ceramics by Liliana Silva of Terrakota add an earthy, tactile presence, each piece carved and painted with care.
Inside the hotel’s old chapel, Alma Mater by AB+AC architects invites stillness, a meditative space designed to reconnect you with your inner light. A serene collision of art, architecture, and soul.
Maison Intègre
Rooted in the artisanal traditions of Burkina Faso, Maison Intègre brings a bold, sculptural spirit to furniture, objects, and accessories.
On show: a striking selection of cast aluminum lighting, the latest collection designed by Marion Mailaender, and a richly textured tapestry created in collaboration with Bogoke Collectif — where craft, culture, and contemporary design seamlessly converge.
BRANCA Lisboa: 15 Years of Chairs by Marco Sousa Santos
They call him The Chairman for a reason. Marco Sousa Santos has spent decades rethinking the chair, not just as an object, but as a design manifesto.
This retrospective, spanning from his 1991 debut with the blue chair, to his latest creation, captures 30 years of bold form, function, and fearless experimentation. A tribute to the chair as both icon and playground for innovation.
OURS presented: Witold Riedel
Polish-born, German-rooted, and endlessly curious, Witold Riedel blurs the lines between craft, design, and raw experimentation. His ceramic work is less about perfection and more about process: carved from clay, fired multiple times — three, sometimes seven — then fractured, forgotten, and reassembled with intent.
Each piece holds the tension of destruction and rebirth, of memory reshaped by time. The result? Hauntingly beautiful objects that feel both ancient and entirely new.
Flores Studio
For this edition, Flores Studio spotlighted its core strength: the thoughtful use of textiles and natural fibres in furniture design. The collection is a tribute to the skilled artisans the studio works closely with.
One standout piece was the Alba Cabinet, where fabric and fibre bring depth, texture, and a strong visual identity. Now based in a new studio surrounded by a tropical garden, Flores Studio draws daily inspiration from nature — a calming, creative space in contrast to a turbulent world.
Quarto Sala
Among the many highlights, QuartoSala and BICAchair unveiled a limited, numbered edition of the iconic Portuguese Chair — reimagined through the bold and poetic lens of artist Pedro Cabrita Reis.
"It’s not just a chair. It’s a statement about tradition, transformation, and the power of form," says Cabrita Reis of the piece.
Studio Gameiro
Studio Gameiro opens its doors—and its process—with an installation that is part exploration, part confession, and entirely one-of-a-kind. Known for their curious spirit and poetic approach to design, the studio reflects on the shared and singular rhythms that shape their creative world.
Named Sinestesia, this year’s experience is less about polished outcomes and more about the in-between moments: the overlaps, the chaos, the instinctual mixing of thoughts, textures, and references that somehow—magically—work.
CASA BOHEMIA ALGARVE By Katia Coelho Aleluia
Where scent meets tradition. Casa Bohemia Algarve celebrates the ancestral art of Portuguese Olaria with hand-thrown vessels crafted from natural white clay — each one a unique story in form and texture.
Their refined olfactive collection pairs modern minimalism with artisanal soul. Eco-conscious at heart, the brand uses only high-quality, CMR- and phthalate-free ingredients, proving that elegance and ethics can burn beautifully together. We also got the chance to see her handmade tapestries.
Banema Studio
Banema Studio hosted two standout debuts rooted in Portuguese craft. MATÉRIA by Diogo Amaro pays tribute to local materials—chestnut, oak, and cork—shaped in a former cooper’s workshop, honouring the traditions of barrel-making while giving them a refined, contemporary edge.
Alongside it, BORA, a new collective by Eneida Tavares, João Xará, Jorge Carreira, and Samuel Reis. Friends, collaborators, and fiercely individual makers, the group presented their first collection: a bold mix of glass, ceramics, wood, metal, and fibres, each piece a testament to shared vision and material fluency.
The Verse
TOSCO Studio debuts Time Vessels at The Verse Hotel, a limited-edition collection of sculptural vases shaped by memory, material, and the quiet force of time. Inspired by geological layers and imagined landscapes, each concrete piece explores the tension between permanence and fragility. With pigment tests, prototypes, and process on display, showing there's poetry in progress.
Bahu Atelier
Bahu Atelier presented ceramics by Clara Rêgo, whose one-of-a-kind hand-built sculpture invites an intimate gaze. Shaped like a tangled root and weathered by time, the pieces once-rough surfaces now glow with quiet sweetness. Weight becomes light. Texture becomes memory.
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