# Atrio Magazine > An independent magazine of architecture, interiors, design, art and places. ## Posts - [Joana Astolfi and the Casa Amarela](https://atriomagazine.com/joana-astolfi-and-the-casa-amarela/): 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 the Baixo Alentejo, the nine suite guesthouse is built around mustard yellows, deep blues and […] - [A Lisbon Hotel That Behaves Like a Village](https://atriomagazine.com/a-lisbon-hotel-that-behaves-like-a-village/): In Lapa, five fishermen’s houses from 1878 have been stitched into Villa Dorothéa, a residence of twenty rooms with no lobby, no protocol and a courtyard full of jasmine. There is a moment, somewhere between the top of Rua das Trinas and the first courtyard, when you realize nobody is going to check you in. […] - [The Estate That Time Rebuilt](https://atriomagazine.com/the-estate-that-time-rebuilt/): In the western Algarve, a 19th-century manor house has become the region’s only five-star rural retreat, a place where silence is the amenity and the land itself does the talking. The experience begins before the hotel even comes into view. The gate opens, and there is nothing but green. It feels almost ceremonial, that first […] - [The Algarve's Most Unmissable Table](https://atriomagazine.com/the-algarves-most-unmissable-table/): 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 you notice is the floor. Polished marble, the kind that holds light rather than just […] - [The Fair That Revolutionized Portuguese Design](https://atriomagazine.com/the-fair-that-revolutionized-portuguese-design/): 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 I started six years ago, there was no real fair about collectible design in Portugal,” […] - [Where Algarve Meets Five-Star Quiet](https://atriomagazine.com/where-algarve-meets-five-star-quiet/): There is a particular quality of light in the Algarve that doesn’t need any description. It’s warm and diffuse, the kind that makes everything it touches look even better. At Wyndham Grand Algarve, set within the protected expanse of the Ria Formosa Natural Park in Quinta do Lago, that light arrives each morning across landscaped […] - [The Architecture Behind Ricardo Vila Nova’s Hair Clinic](https://atriomagazine.com/the-architecture-beding-ricardo-vila-novas-hair-clinic/): 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 a building on Avenida da Liberdade with 212 on the second floor. The landlord spent […] - [Where the Wind Paints: Her Clique's First Artist-in-Residence Brings Nature to Lisbon](https://atriomagazine.com/where-the-wind-paints-her-cliques-first-artist-in-residence-brings-nature-to-lisbon/): There is something deliberately unique about Isabella Russo Siqueira’s paintings and that is precisely the point. Stretched across the walls of Her Clique’s Lisbon gallery, the large-scale works on fabric carry the memory of two climates: the sudden tropical downpours of Cancun and the persistent Atlantic wind of Portugal. Together, they tell a story not […] - [Sud Lisboa and the Art of the Riverside](https://atriomagazine.com/sud-lisboa-and-the-art-of-the-riverside/): When people think of Lisbon, they often picture sunshine and the Tagus River, and SUD Lisboa captures both perfectly. Set in Belém, with breathtaking views of the 25 de Abril Bridge and Cristo Rei, it has become one of the city’s go-to destinations since opening in 2017, turning its location into a full experience.. More […] - [Olympia, a Hotel with History](https://atriomagazine.com/olympia-a-hotel-with-history/): Lisbon’s Olympia Lis Hotel has been a concert hall, a jazz club, a cinema, and a ruin. Now it’s one of the most interesting new hotels in the city. The Birth of the Olympia In 1911, Leopoldo O’Donnell, son of Irish immigrants who’d made Lisbon home, opened the Salao Olympia on Rua dos Condes, right […] - [The Water Studio Lisbon and the Architecture of Experience](https://atriomagazine.com/the-water-studio-lisbon-and-the-architecture-of-experience/): Near Amoreiras, on a street long occupied by Lisbon’s architecture studios, a new address redefines the typology. The Water Studio Lisbon is the latest in a series of experience-driven spaces developed by the Hansgrohe Group, following London, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Hamburg and Turin. Each is built around the single conviction that the products of AXOR and […] - [The Factory That Became a Hotel](https://atriomagazine.com/the-factory-that-became-a-hotel/): There are hotels that erase their past, and there are those that wear it like a second skin. The DoubleTree by Hilton Lisbon – Fontana Park belongs unequivocally to the latter. Occupying what was once the Metalúrgica Lisbonense, an iron factory dating to 1908, the building does not simply acknowledge its industrial origins, and instead […] - [Lisbon’s Private Members’ Clubs Are Quietly Levelling Up](https://atriomagazine.com/private_members_clubs/): Soho House, we’ve all heard of it, the place where Harry and Meghan met in the quaint Dean Street location. Personally, we love any opportunity to meet fellow creatives across the world, and is there anywhere more creative than Lisbon? A Soho House expansion to Lisbon is long overdue, but in the meantime, the city […] - [Lupita's New Pizzeria Exudes Industrial Glamour](https://atriomagazine.com/lupita_new_pizzeria_lisbon/): Lupita’s new Alvalade spot hits like architecture dipped in fire, and it’s built to age like steel. The studio responsible for this? XXXI.studio, who describe themselves as “driven by a duality between chaos and beauty,” and damn if this space doesn’t deliver on that promise. This is pizza as structural spectacle: reflective steel, exposed surfaces, […] - [We Need to Thank the Portuguese Architects Behind Missoni's Aroeira Project](https://atriomagazine.com/missoni_portugal_achitecture_project/): Missoni has officially stepped into Portugal’s real-estate world, and their debut is anything but shy. Aroeira Collections, set in the pine forests just south of Lisbon, lands with the kind of confidence you only get from a brand that has spent decades mastering colour, texture, and the art of atmosphere. It’s not a cautious introduction. […] - [Rural Chic in Portugal Is Cooler Than Rural Chic Anywhere Else](https://atriomagazine.com/rural_chic/): Picture this: a centuries-old farmhouse. Whitewashed walls that look good in literally every light. Terracotta floors worn down in all the right places. A giant ceramic bowl that somehow costs €400 and you’re unironically obsessed with it. A perfectly imperfect linen bedspread whispering, “I care… but casually.” That’s rural-chic: the sweet spot where rustic honesty […] - [Hand Us the Keys Casa Plaj. We Want to Move In.](https://atriomagazine.com/new_portugal_airbnb/): There are places that stay with you long after you leave and Casa Plaj is one of them. Set in the quiet landscape of Lourinhã it feels more like a retreat designed with intention than a simple holiday rental. Everything about it invites you to slow down notice the details and fall into the rhythm […] - [Did We Really Just Get a Vhils x Joana Vasconcelos Collab?](https://atriomagazine.com/vhils_joanavasconcelos_partnership/): 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 the Under-Dogs banner. It’s the kind of pairing that makes you wonder why it didn’t […] - [Don't Go Bananas, "Comedian" Has Made It to Portugal](https://atriomagazine.com/maurizio_cattelan_in_portugal/): 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 banana, priced at a modest $120,000 to $150,000.  “Comedian” sparked outrage in the art world. […] - [Is That a Garden in the Middle of Avenida da Liberdade?](https://atriomagazine.com/bougain_avenida_da_liberdade/): Avenida da Liberdade isn’t the kind of street that hides things. It’s all wide sidewalks, polished storefronts, and a steady rhythm of people moving with purpose. Yet tucked inside the elegant Valverde Hotel, behind a discreet entrance, sits one of Lisbon’s most unexpected escapes: Bougain Avenida, a restaurant that feels less like a dining room […] - [IKEA Is Out. Curated Is In](https://atriomagazine.com/ikea_is_out_curated_is_in/): For years, the world lived inside a globalized aesthetic: the same chairs, the same lamps, the same “minimalist” shelves pretending to be personality. We called it design; really, it was wallpaper. Mass-produced décor became the worldwide default: comforting, consistent, and completely forgettable. Then Portugal quietly changed the rules. Lisbon didn’t just reject flat-pack culture; it […] ## Pages - [Legal Notice](https://atriomagazine.com/legal-notice/): Atrio Magazine is an independent digital magazine of architecture, interiors, design, art and places, published by Matoma OÜ. 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