desirePlate 432 · Porto, Portugal

Livraria Lello

A bookshop that became a pilgrimage because a staircase looked like a spell.

1906 · Francisco Xavier Esteves · Europe

The chamber score

Coimbra

Fado tradicional · Beira

A university city's own lament.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The neo-Gothic bookshop, among the most famous interiors in the world.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Livraria Lello through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Livraria Lello was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.