Lagrima, a ceramic studio in the heart of Porto

I visited Joana from Lagrima Studio in Porto. Arriving to the address she had given me I was greeted by the doormen who introduced me to the mysteries of the building. The building is a big old garage still in use. It has an old fashion lift with running wood doors and labyrinthic corridors. These led me to the welcoming space of Lagrima, a pale space, with shelves lined with cups and bowls.  I was lucky, because I visited in a day when many pieces were fresh out of production.

Dreams are also made of soft towels

This is a blog about portuguese homeware. Things for the home: thought, designed and made in Portugal. I am talking ceramics, textiles, knifes, pans, furniture, lamps, cutelery. I am talking wood, earthware, metal, cork, cotton.

All my life I remember my mother having these To Go brands: the tea towels, the bedsheets, the covers, the pans. In our connected world I failed to find them. Brands exist since decades, many still family owned, with beautiful products and amazing craftmanship but I still could not show them to my friends through the clicks on the ipad.

I will be talking about the items I love, the ones I have or would like to have at home. The ones that bring me childhood memories and the latest designers I fell in love with.

This is a very personal project.  At the end I would like to achieve a sort of list, meeting point of all those brands, creators and creations so difficult to find under the same roof. I hope this can be a meeting point for like-minded people. I hope through this blog to show the craftsmanship, the quality of materials, the beauty and functionality of portuguese homeware.

How it all started

Beautiful things many times start with a white canvas. My white canvas was an empty apartment in Portugal. This beautiful space, with its white walls, tall windows and deep shades from the sun is in between tradition and modernity.  Empty, with sound resonating on its bare walls, I decided I wanted to use only portuguese things: thought and made in Portugal. It was my humble homage to the roosts and history of this historical building.

Living abroad, I started perusing the internet. It was at that moment I realised all my searches would lead me to beautiful things made in France, US and other places. I spent a huge amount of time until I started finding what I was looking for. Between worth of mouth and luck on google search I started finding some of my childhood brands and new designers.

This brings us here, to this blog, to the things for the home I cherish and love, to Portuguese Homeware.

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