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Quinta dos Carvalhos by SA&V – SAARANHA&VASCONCELOS

SA&V – SAARANHA&VASCONCELOS have been Shortlisted for Regeneration/Restoration Award in The International Design and Architecture Awards 2022.

Quinta dos Carvalhos  is a family home on the outskirts of Lisbon, which has belonged to the family since the XVIII Century and was recently restored as a retreat where the owners like to go whenever they need to rest from their hectic lives in the city.

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This is a historic house where, back in the XVIII Century, the first Azeitão cheese was produced – a true glory of Portuguese gastronomy. The main priority was to enhance the natural beauty of a house owned by the family for several generations, making it more comfortable for today’s life, where modern features are essential without destroying tradition. These clients, art collectors and beauty lovers, enjoy welcoming their family and friends at home. They are highly attentive to detail and in their homes nothing can be left to chance.

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For them, there are things that the team already knew would be mandatory: quality and refinement above all, comfort and personalization, beauty, irreverence, a mixture of styles. The hostess often says “Nothing is impossible” and the creative team also shares this maxim. In this project, nothing was impossible and everything was thought out in detail, as the Portuguese Estremoz stone used in the WC’s. However, these ambiances were not only made of beauty, as the client combines her passion for detail and aesthetics with technical support, “Things have to work well.” Therefore the team had to merge functional with beauty making it a perfect symbiosis. This project is art and antiques (indispensable) combined with contemporary pieces in an extremely comfortable and beautiful mix of old and new.

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As the property is a XVIII Century house, the walls are one meter thick. In order to gain space in their thickness, all the covering was made using the original materials so as not to destroy the house’s original features. This is such an antique house that the entire environment has already been adapted to the house and not the other way around. There is already such a perfect harmony between the two that they coexist.

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