all photos by Lauren Maccabee
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My best friends’ visit happened to coincide with Open House Lisboa, an event where you can take a tour in several buildings in Lisbon. As we’re both architects, we couldn’t let this opportunity pass by. There was just one tiny problem: we expected it to be similar to ‘dag van de architectuur’ in Flanders (you can see some photos of last year’s edition here), where you’re free to visit any building at any time. So we didn’t subscribe in advance to see any buildings, with the result that we just explored a few buildings from the outside. So here’s the first batch of photos, from the champalimaud centre for the unknown, which is a research centre for neurosciences and oncology.
- Weekday carnival posted this lovely bedroom on her blog. I adore the mint colored wall in combination with those black and white accessories. (source)
- Beautiful combination of lamps in the town hall hotel‘s corner room.
- Using a pull down map as a planner and moodboard looks so great! The mishmash of chairs underneath is pretty cool too. (source)
- One of the many gorgeous apartments at freunden von freunden. (source)
- Pretty clothing rack. (source)
- Industrial inspired work place, I especially love the ‘concrete’ decoration on the wall and the metal deer head. (source)
- This gigantic map used as wall paper is stunning! (source)
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Hermès dedicating a bag to my blog… If only! (
Armed with technology tea infuser, available 
Cats! (
Every tuesday, the residents of an appartment building somewhere in Lisbon open their doors to everyone who’s interested. You go through the building and take the fire escape to the roof of the building. Here you’ll have an amazing view over the city, get a vegetarian meal for only 3 euros, meet wonderful people and watch an interesting movie. In short, you’ll have a great evening! I’m sorry for the bad quality of these photos by the way, they could’ve been so much better if I wouldn’t have slipped on one of Lisbon’s slippery sidewalks when it was raining (and thus even more slippery!), as I broke my 50 mm lens when I fell… Lisbon gives and takes I guess!
Beautiful collage by Colette Saint Yves. (source)
Peter Madden’s collages – made out of old encyclopedias, back issues of National Geographic, and nature books – suspended in plexiglass. (source)
Bookyard, by Italian artist Massimo Bartolini for the Belgian art festival TRACK: A Contemporary City Conversation in Ghent, is an outdoor library where visitors can take any book in return for a small donation. (source)
Speechless studios designed this memory bank, a place where you can store emotional valuable things like love notes or ticket stubs. (source)
Lars Beller Fjetland makes birds out of old chair legs. (source)
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Moving to a new city meant I had to make a trip to ikea. Luckily my room was furnished, but I still needed blankets and some additions to the kitchen. Of course this visit to Ikea lead to a massive wishlist and a strong desire to find an unfurnished apartment, but since I’m a poor student who’s only staying here for 5 months and I have to move all my stuff back home by plane, I couldn’t give in. So I just made a little collage out of all the pretty things ikea had to offer to fulfill my decoration needs!
From top to bottom:
Ungdom cups
Mildra glasses
Bakelse cup – Vänna mirror
Diod glass
Hektar suspended lamp
Behövd vacuum flask
Tisdag desk lamp – Tradig candle holder
Malin Blad sheets – Vittsjö desk – Björnloka Ruta sheets
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