Stories
The Woman Behind the Titles
A private breakfast in Lisbon with Sanna Marin, and the questions women ask when the titles fall away.
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading This Autumn. Five Longer Evenings
Autumn hands the evenings back to us. The light goes early, the lamp comes on, and the attention that summer scatters begins to gather again. This is the season for the book that asks something of you, the kind you read slowly because it rewards being read slowly. So we asked five members of SWS…
Read MoreA Curious Woman in Many Worlds. Angelika Svoboda on Looking, Listening and the Art of the Global South
Angelika Svoboda has spent her working life close to the moment before a work becomes public: the studio visit, the acquisition, the artist nobody has placed yet. A social and cultural anthropologist by training, she reads a painting for its story before its materials, and she has built two NGOs alongside a career in art…
Read MoreThe Shortlist. October in Lisbon
Five reasons to keep your evenings free this month, from a Kosovar stage to a Lebanese table in Campo de Ourique.
Read MoreReading Is How We Become Better People. Silvia Pazos Rodríguez, the Woman Behind Book 2.0
How would you introduce yourself beyond the titles and accomplishments? Who is Silvia at her core? I am a human leader and an advocate for change who loves to build rooms where the right conversations happen, connecting people with a higher mission who actually mean what they say. I’m driven by a kind of restless…
Read MoreThe Shortlist. September in Lisbon
Five reasons to stay close this month, from a stage set in 2077 to a counter of open fire in Restelo.
Read MoreThe Measure of a Hand. MACHEIA
MACHEIA was founded in 2020 by Lucrezia Papillo, an Italian-German product designer trained at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and Iany Gayo, a Mozambican-Portuguese architect who studied at Lisbon’s Instituto Superior Técnico. Two women, two disciplines, one practice built on the conviction that the oldest techniques still have the most to say.
Read MoreO Longo Adeus
An afternoon inside a house in Lapa, saying goodbye slowly during Lisbon Design Week.
Read MoreWhat We’re Reading This Summer
Summer loosens its hold on the calendar. The days stretch, the reading slows, and a book becomes the best kind of company: the one you choose entirely for yourself.
Read MoreOn Opening New Doors. A Note from the Founder
Growth does not have to mean scale. It can be softer than that — broadening one’s horizons, opening a door that was not there before.
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