The Most Beautiful Homes in the World: U-House by Jorge Graça Costa, Portugal
Senhor Prudêncio Men’s Footwear and Accessories
The brainchild of Portuguese designer João Pedro Filipe, Senhor Prudêncio is a new and promising brand of men’s shoes and accessories recently shown during London Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2013 (with the support of support of the European Capital of Culture, Guimarães 2012 through the platform Fashion/Hub). A graduate of Fashion Design by the Institute Français de la Mode (IFM) in Paris, Filipe was also a winner of a British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Award, and owns a design studio that has developed products for several brands.
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Villa Extramuros by Vora Arquitectura
The Style Examiner recently came across what may have taken the top spot on our holiday destination wish list: designed by Vora Arquitectura, the Villa Extramuros is a small villa-hotel located in Arraiolos, in the Alentejo area of Portugal, and very close to Évora, a Unesco world heritage city.
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A Writers’ Retreat
As new buildings that incorporate good design to benefit education and culture seem to be rare in times of recession, The Style Examiner decided to cast his eyes on a completed project that remains an excellent example of how good architecture can contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and creativity.
Located in the University town of Coimbra, Portugal, the ‘Casa da Escrita’ (or, literally, House of Writing), used to be the home of the poet João Cochofel (1919-1982) before it received funding to be converted by architect and set designer João Mendes Ribeiro into a writer’s retreat.
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What Do You Love about Lisbon?
A very poetic short film about one of The Style Examiner’s favourite cities in the world has turned into an overnight viral success, with over 45,000 hits in one week. Produced by the Lisbon Lovers collective, ‘What Do You Love about Lisbon?’ is a nicely produced film that reveals what natives and visitors feel about the Portuguese capital without resorting to tired touristic clichés.
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Boca do Lobo: The Excellence of Furniture Design and Craftsmanship
Hailing from Portugal, a country with a long and established tradition in textile, footwear and furniture design and manufacturing, Boca do Lobo (‘Mouth of the Wolf’) is a brand that produces some of the most exciting furniture around these days. Since it was set up in 2005, Boca do Lobo has gone from strength to strength, having exhibited in numerous trade fairs in Portugal, Angola, Belgium, Dubai, France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK, and the US, and have had their products featured in publications in Dubai, Greece, Japan, Latvia, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Turkey, UK, and the US.
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Winners of Competition for London’s Olympic Games Pavilion Announced
A Portuguese team of architects (comprising Jose Carlos Cruz, Ines Guedes, Miguel Santos and Antonio Cruz) has won the AC-CA ideas competition to design a temporary information pavilion for London’s Trafalgar Square during the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Bruno Freitas de Oliveira and the Mechanical Eye of Human Reality
The enthusiasm for a blurred perception of the world as the creative medium to depict reality inhabits the world of the photographer Bruno Freitas de Oliveira writ large.
This talented photographer hails from Portugal where he studied Industrial Design. After moving to London over a decade ago, he followed his passion and studied Photography at Central Saint Martins. He describes his work as inhabiting the format of snapshot and documentary while disregarding the idea of authenticity and testimony. To some extent, his work integrates Sartre’s idea of ‘deceit’, of the world as description of the world seen by the Other, a world where consciousness is pure intentionality itself.
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