Ninety square metres in Graça, painted a yellow that holds up under fluorescent light at seven in the morning and still looks warm at nine at night. Forty covers, one very long bench.
Sixty-one finished since 2017; these are the ones worth arguing about. Every scheme below started with three colours and one rule about where they were allowed to go.
Ninety square metres in Graça, painted a yellow that holds up under fluorescent light at seven in the morning and still looks warm at nine at night. Forty covers, one very long bench.
A furniture showroom where the walls had to disappear behind the stock — so we made them one deep green and let the products be the loud ones.
Thirty desks and one rule: no meeting room without daylight. The colour sits on the furniture rather than the walls, so it can move when the team grows — which it did, twice, within a year.
Cream and butter yellow, benches deep enough to sit sideways, a counter set by the owner's shoulders rather than a standard.
Palette only, for a hotel that already had an architect: three colours, eleven surfaces, painted at full size before a litre was bought.
Sixty square metres, stock that changes weekly, and a display system that survives being rebuilt by whoever is on shift.
A wine bar the size of a living room. One colour on everything including the ceiling, so that the room reads as a single object once the lights go down.
A studio for eight people in a flat that was never meant to hold them. Acoustic felt behind the colour, and a kitchen big enough that lunch happens there.
Our first project with no white wall anywhere in it. Crates at browsing height, listening corner by the window, and a ceiling dark enough that nobody looks up.
Every one of these was painted at full size before it was paid for.