Lisbon, Portugal
Jorge Sousa Santos
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
A new glasses shop in
Beja designed by
Jorge Sousa Santos, where he used small rotating circular mirrors, that also work as support for the glasses. Now, architecture photographer
Joao Morgado shared this optical store in Lisbon, designed by the same architect.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
The main idea developed itself centred in the need to extend the exhibition to the whole area of the space. Since the space was big, and the protagonists of the exhibition are small, we were drived to design an exhibition device that could be extended in the whole surface of the walls. This device draws itself in complex correlation of simple shapes forming a dance of departing and proximity.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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The exhibition elements form a net of vertical and horizontal prisms built in steel MDF and
Plexiglas, this later perform itself as a multitasking surface. If is horizontal and faced upwards, it is an area for the lodging of the
eyeglasses, if it is vertical is the support of the classical nose hold, if it is horizontal and faced downwards it is a lamp.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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The notion of movement is immersed in all the elements that compose the store, the desks for private consulting, the counters, the cabinets. They exist in a suspended movement state, similar to the wall exhibition support.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
The notion of unity, and continuity are rooted in the design of the entire space. This notion of unity is achieved not only with the forms of the objects that produce a kind of mnemonic osmosis, but also with the materials, particularly the dark wood floor, that spreads itself in a state of absolute continuity.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado |
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| floor plans--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos |
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| sections 01--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos |
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| sections 02--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos |
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| detail 01--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos |
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| detail 02--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos |
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| detail 03--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos |
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| detail 04--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos |
The people
Interior designer: Jorge Sousa Santos
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Client: Private
Photographs: Joao Morgado
