Claus Porto Store, Lisbon Shop Interior, Portuguese Design Images, Architecture
Claus Porto Store in Lisbon
Shop Interior in Portugal ? design by João Mendes Ribeiro, architect
10 Jan 2017
Claus Porto Store
Architect: João Mendes Ribeiro
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Claus Porto Store

Claus Porto is a portuguese scents brand whose 130 years history had to be summoned in the project of the first flagship store to open in Lisbon downtown. A heritage built not just by their impressive material assets, but also by their intangible patrimony, linked to the objects? symbolic quality and value.

Towards the visual impact that the Claus products have, the store design would have to be minimalist but very sensitive, so that it could enhance and complement the brand?s strong identity.
It should be an inclusive, elegant and cosmopolitan place, but also a place with a strong sensory appeal. The interior of the preexistent store consisted of two different rooms at different heights, united by a staircase, both accessible by the exterior, with entrances in two different streets.

The room in Rua da Misericórdia was, for many years, used as a pharmacy, from which it inherited the wooden display cabinets that cover all the walls and the plaster ceilings adorned with geometrical and vegetable motifs.

The proposal for this space was mostly based on the preservation and restoration of the existing structures, trying to enrich the preexistence and adapt it to its new circumstances. In t...