Closet | restyling.

Há quase um ano mudei de casa, mas continua um work in progress. Um dos quartos virou closet e por incrível que pareça tem sido a divisão mais difícil de decorar. Supostamente seria fácil, uma vez que se resume a nem meia dúzia de coisas, mas não! Sentia que algo não fluia, que estava no sítio errado mas não sabia exactamente o quê, razão pela qual nunca tinha pendurado os meus prints. 

Finalmente concentrei-me no espaço para perceber exactamente o que estava mal, e descobri: a chaise-longue não devia estar na obliqua junto ao roupeiro, mas sim e literalmente no meio do closet. Já está e está óptimo. Aliás, deve estar tão bom que os meus gatos deitaram-se nela a dormir a sesta a tarde toda (e ainda lá estão). 

Sentido no ponteiro do relógio:
- Postal assinado por Twiggy na apresentação de um livro sobre o trabalho dela publicado pelo museu V&A, Londres
- Jean Shrimpton in a Mary Quant dress (All rights reserved) V&A HJ97
- Velvet cap with ostrich pom-pom (All rights reserved) V&A HJ116
- Fashion sketch by Marcel Fromenti (All rights reserved) V&A BM2414
- Model in black dress and jacket (All rights reserved) V&A SCAN142513

Talk To Me

Talk to me. This is probably the sentence which best describes myself.

I love to talk and I love to go to Talks. Lots to learn, lots to think and lots to share.

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London organizes the best ones. With a very dynamic approach, they engage history and contemporary subjects really well. Here are a few I attended in 2010.


1 - World Cities - Paris
2 - Made in Britain by Established & Sons with Alice Rawsthorn
3 - World Cities - New York
4 - Creative Leadership with John Maeda
5 - A chat between Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulbrich.

Who do you like to talk to?

The Buddhism Gallery.

This is one of my favorite space gallery in the V&A Museum. It brings together many spatial features that I really appreciate in interiors:
- The enfilade arrangement;
- It’s an amazing natural light spot;
- The walls color, which challenges the classic white walls;
- And it links very gracefully two distinct areas of the museum: its core (if I can call it this way) and the Sackler Centre where amazing lectures, talks and other educational events always happen.

One Entry.

There is another reason why I just love this shade of blue – it is as if the sculptures are in the horizon surrounded by an amazing blue sky.

The Other Entry.

Enfilade – A series of rooms linked together without the use of a corridor or other circulation space. This was the normal spatial arrangement within all buildings before the seventeenth century and is nowadays particular noticeable in galleries established in European stately homes. This form is still the normal arrangement of spaces in most museums and galleries. (definition from the dictionary of interior architecture and design)


Gallery name - The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.

The Victoria and Albert Museum Refreshment Rooms – London.

The Morris, Gamble and Poynter Refreshment Rooms.

"These three rooms formed the first museum restaurant in the world. They were intended as a showpiece of modern design, craftsmanship and manufacturing. Although they were functional spaces, the Refresment Rooms belonged to the museum’s public face, so they were also given some extremely lavish decorations." – V&A

Centre Refreshment Room (now Gamble Room).

Clad in ceramic tiles on the walls.

Windows designed by James Gamble.



Enamelled iron on the ceiling.

These chandeliers are the perfect marriage between 19th and 21st Century, as if it's the diamond on top of the cake.





If you’re planning to come to London or already here, take a couple of hours and enjoy a nice cup of tea in this beautiful and inspiring space. On Saturdays there’s always someone playing the piano. Enjoy.

Next time I’ll post photos on the Morris and Poynter Refreshment Rooms.