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TEATRO TABORDA
Costa do Castelo, 75 1100-178 Lisboa
Photos by Arlindo Camacho
The Garage Theatre invited Joana Astolfi to renovate Teatro Taborda's coffee shop.
Joana accepted the challenge and these are her words about this project:
"It was a cold space, without identity. An empty box. An aquarium without water. The challenge was to warm this space with life. Make it comfortable as a home. Connect it to the theater. The Garage Café had to be an experience and tell a story.
Despite its nakedness, this space offered a great opportunity: a window above one of the slopes the city, framing an incredible prospect: from Graça to Nossa Senhora do Monte, from Mouraria to Martim Moniz. This view was my starting point. To celebrate the window, we applied a mirror along the entire space of the opposite wall, which reflects and multiplies the sight, bringing the landscape into the Café. Another decisive intervention was to create a warm, subtle, environmental light, through the suspension of 32 lamps built with glass balls, all different, bought in street markets and second hand stores, found in my grandmother's house. The lamps were suspended in line, running over the tables. These balls of light are reflected in the mirror and, in the evening, they merge with the city lights.
We applied warm and soft colors over the walls, footers, and second-hand chairs. The cold floor is covered with rugs. The tables are recycled doors. The bench along the window has lamps, made of glass carboys, plants, theatrical objects and binoculars, to see closely the city afar. We have a cloakroom made of three chairs. Hung a cage with two parakeets and called them 'Antonio' and 'Mary'.
The Garage Café, and all the living areas of Teatro Taborda, became a great, warm and welcoming house, full of surprises and small things to find. A house that tells his story in detail, using transformed objects, phrases, smells, tastes and views. A house inhabited by the theater. "
Joana Astolfi, November 2011
Café da Garagem Opens at 6 pm | Tuesdays to Sundays
Teatro Taborda
Costa do Castelo, 75
1100-178 Lisboa
The Garage Theatre invited Joana Astolfi to renovate Teatro Taborda's coffee shop.
Joana accepted the challenge and these are her words about this project:
"It was a cold space, without identity. An empty box. An aquarium without water. The challenge was to warm this space with life. Make it comfortable as a home. Connect it to the theater. The Garage Café had to be an experience and tell a story.
Despite its nakedness, this space offered a great opportunity: a window above one of the slopes the city, framing an incredible prospect: from Graça to Nossa Senhora do Monte, from Mouraria to Martim Moniz. This view was my starting point. To celebrate the window, we applied a mirror along the entire space of the opposite wall, which reflects and multiplies the sight, bringing the landscape into the Café. Another decisive intervention was to create a warm, subtle, environmental light, through the suspension of 32 lamps built with glass balls, all different, bought in street markets and second hand stores, found in my grandmother's house. The lamps were suspended in line, running over the tables. These balls of light are reflected in the mirror and, in the evening, they merge with the city lights.
We applied warm and soft colors over the walls, footers, and second-hand chairs. The cold floor is covered with rugs. The tables are recycled doors. The bench along the window has lamps, made of glass carboys, plants, theatrical objects and binoculars, to see closely the city afar. We have a cloakroom made of three chairs. Hung a cage with two parakeets and called them 'Antonio' and 'Mary'.
The Garage Café, and all the living areas of Teatro Taborda, became a great, warm and welcoming house, full of surprises and small things to find. A house that tells his story in detail, using transformed objects, phrases, smells, tastes and views. A house inhabited by the theater. "
Joana Astolfi, November 2011
Café da Garagem Opens at 6 pm | Tuesdays to Sundays
Teatro Taborda
Costa do Castelo, 75
1100-178 Lisboa