“From February 1, our studio will be located in Portugal, in a blue tiled building in central Lisbon.” The designer Emmanuel Babled thus announced the move to Rua da Madalena, 85 and waited for the fall, to open, literally, the doors to the world. “We want people to know we exist.”
Friday is Open Studio day and show two new creations, pitchers Pyros and Etnastone dining table. It is also a way to present this pombalina house, wood flooring race, the old chimney in sight. “From here I see the 28, I’m close to small shops, right on the side of the Castle,”.
Babled, author of Digit lamp and with 25 years of experience in glass, could enter the French list linked to the creative industries that are moving to Portugal, taking advantage of tax benefits, side professional colleague of the Phillipe Starck, the designer fashion Christophe Sauvat and Christian Louboutin, or even former footballer Eric Cantona and actress Monica Bellucci. Admits the advantages: “I can be in downtown, which does not happen in Milan or Amsterdam”, but ensures that the change has been in the plans six years ago when he moved from Milan to Amsterdam.
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The interest of Emmanuel Babled by Portugal did not start in January, when he moved to Lisbon. “Six years ago, when I moved to Amsterdam, I thought in Lisbon. He knew the country, used to spend a family vacation in the Algarve and the Costa Vicentina, “that harsh landscape” that you remembered the teenage holiday in Biarritz. But, to be closer to his daughter, eventually moving from Milan to Amsterdam. “it taught in Holland,” he explains. Now, with the children to study at university, he returned to an interest in Portugal.
Packaged prototypes, models, computers and architectural photographs of the German artist, and friend, Josep Schulz, who were already in Milan and settled.
In the studio, English is the lingua franca among five people who work here: he, two Portuguese, German and Turkish with whom he worked in Holland and lived in Italy. It is inside of all the work of the designer. End up exchanging views in Italian. Two other people work in Italy, close to the production that continues to do there.
The charge has also to do with the city of Lisbon. “I’m here in the center, two house steps, do everything on foot, have a better quality life and this is good for my team. To be in a place that offers good quality of life is important for those who have a creative work”says Emmanuel Babled.
Source: Diário de Notícias
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