PINKO, the brainchild of its current Chairman and CEO Pietro Negra and his wife Cristina Rubini, was founded in the late 80s. Over the years, their daughters Cecilia and Caterina also joined the company, working in the Communication and Creative Department respectively.

PINKO is a response to the fashion needs of an independent, strong and sexy woman, aware of her femininity and determined to express it in different ways, but first and foremost through her choice of style. The collections stand out for their unique, eclectic, original and contemporary style, of great appeal to women worldwide. Year after year, these women have contributed to the brand’s global development and success.

Acclaimed image-makers and exceptional photographers have worked in partnership with us to create the PINKO image, through campaigns that have made the brand immediately recognizable globally. Terry Richardson, Steven Klein and Xavi Gordo have photographed a string of super models like Naomi Campbell, Elle MacPherson, Carmen Kass, Eva Herzigova, Alessandra Ambrosio, Kate Bosworth, Sara Sampaio, Barbara Palvin and Stella Maxwell.

Special projects and capsule collections developed with some of the most interesting designers and stylists on the international scene – like Mark Fast, Alessandra Facchinetti, Marina Spadafora, Viviana Volpicella and Nicola Brognano – are a perfect illustration of PINKO’s highly dynamic approach, always with a focus on creative talent.

E. Frank and Manuel Casal launched Stivali over three decades ago. The two visionaries developed and implemented a unique concept in Lisbon, with an avant-garde and surprising look at brand curation and with a premium and exclusive service, characterized by the adaptation of pieces by their in-house ateliers and customer advice. Find it at the heart of Avenida da Liberdade, 38B.

The hotel H10 Duque de Loulé is located on Avenida Duque de Loulé, on a charming walk just meters from the Marquês de Pombal square and Avenida da Liberdade, one of the main routes through the center of Lisbon and the prime shopping area of the Portuguese capital. The hotel is also a walkable distance from both the financial district and the city´s main viewpoints.

Set in a historic building, the H10 Duque de Loulé is a four-star superior Boutique Hotel that fuses traditional Portuguese décor with a modern and elegant touch. It offers comfortable rooms, the Azul e Branco Restaurant, two meeting rooms and the Limão Rooftop Bar, with spectacular views from Lisbon and the Tagus Estuary.

Rooms

The 88 bright rooms at the H10 Duque de Loulé are decorated with a very elegant, contemporary interior design where the blue and white tones predominate. The traditional Portuguese tiles – painted by hand exclusively for the hotel – create a captivating atmosphere. In addition, some Double Rooms and Superior Rooms feature a cosy reading corner by the window. All rooms have special amenities typical of a Boutique Hotel that will provide all the comfort needed for a pleasant stay in Lisbon.

Restaurants and Bars 

Azul e Branco Restaurant: à la carte restaurant open for breakfast and dinner. Featuring delicious typically Mediterranean cuisine, inspired by traditional Portuguese flavours with a homage to Spanish cooking (a nod to the roots of the H10 Hotels chain). With an ambience full of charm, its elegant design features many ceramic decorative elements, such as Portuguese plates and tiles and large windows that bring abundant light into the restaurant.

Equestre Bar: after a tiring day of sightseeing, shopping and fun, you’ll be able to relax in the Equestre Bar and enjoy the extensive drinks and apéritifs menu. And in the meantime, why not have a look at the books available and learn more about the history of Portugal, or maybe take time to check your email or hold a pleasant conversation in an elegant and cosy atmosphere.

Limão Rooftop: located on the 10th floor, the terrace bar has two different areas, one covered and one in the open air with impressive views from Lisbon and the Tagus Estuary. It is the perfect place to finish off the day sipping a cocktail or having a snack while enjoying the sunset over the Portuguese capital. Immerse yourself in the carefully selected music that we have prepared for you, and take in the view of the colourful city rooftops.

The bar is closed during the winter season, but guests are still welcome to enjoy the rooftop, except for when there are private events being held or in the event of force majeure situations, in which case acess will be restricted.

The One Palácio da Anunciada, the new five-star hotel in Lisbon, is located in the city centre, a few metres from Avenida da Liberdade. Housed in a 16th-century palace that maintains all of its essence and majesty, its understated and contemporary interior design emphasizes the building’s original beauty. The hotel offers gourmet restaurant Condes de Ericeira, 2500m2 of gardens with an outdoor swimming pool, the Despacio Spa at The One health and beauty centre, and unique spaces for events and celebrations.

History

The Palácio da Anunciada was built in 1533 and years later became part of the estate of the Counts of Ericeira, an influential and noble family that came to occupy some of the most important positions of power in Portugal. Under their ownership, the palace enjoyed its period of greatest splendour but in 1755 the building was destroyed in the earthquake that struck Lisbon. After its reconstruction, at the end of the 18th century, the palace became the residence of the Marquises de Rio Maior and illustrious names in Portuguese politics and society were born there, such as João Oliveira e Daun, Duke of Saldanha, who was prime minister of Portugal on several occasions between 1835 and 1870.

Rooms

Cosy and bright, the rooms of The One Palácio da Anunciada boasts a sophisticated interior design that creates an atmosphere of contemporary luxury featuring neutral colours, fine materials and top-quality textures. In homage to Portuguese tradition, each room includes original hand-painted ceramic pieces created exclusively for the hotel, as well as unique images of the original building that take guests on a journey trough the history of the palace.

Restaurants and Bars 

Condes de Ericeira: located in one of the grand halls of the palace and with direct access to the gardens, the Condes de Ericeira Restaurant is a new gastronomic hotspot in Lisbon. The space has been meticulously renovated to recover all the wealth of details of its original decoration including a magnificent coffered ceiling with hand-painted frescoes. Its elaborate menu offers typical Portuguese market cuisine with a Mediterranean influence.

The Jardim Wine Bar: presided over by an elegant circular bar, the Jardim Wine Bar is located in another grand hall of the palace that has been perfectly restored to recover the original splendour of its coffered ceiling and large windows. It also provides direct access to the palace gardens. It is the perfect place for sampling delicious tapas and small dishes accompained by a glass of excellent Portuguese wine or an exclusive signature cocktail in a chic atmosphere.

It also serves an exquisite breakfast buffet prepared with high-quality natural products as well as a selection of à la carte dishes prepared to order.

Outdoor pool and bar service (seasonal): with a privileged location overlooking the majestic palace gardens and the refreshing pool, this bar is open exclusively to hotel guests to ensure their privacy.

Despacio Spa at The One 

Enjoy a few hours of wellbeing at the Despacio Spa at The One, where you’ll be able to disconnect from all your daily worries while relaxing in the experience pool with natural light or enjoying personalized treatments that use locally produced oils and essences or the exclusive products of Natura Bissé, a pioneering brand in the world of cosmetics.

Annual Courses
Cambridge School offers a wide range of private lessons and group courses for all levels, from courses for beginners to advanced students preparing for international exams, the lessons are scheduled for a duration of 75 minutes (twice a week), or three consecutive lessons of 50 minutes, for example on Saturday morning. Timetables are available daily between 8 am and 10 pm and on Saturdays between 8:30 am and 1:30 pm. We also have courses specially designed for adults during lunch time and after working hours.

Intensive Courses

If for educational, professional or personal reasons you need a faster pace of learning, there is a series of intensive courses up to an intermediate level. Generally, these 40-lesson courses have two 50-minutes classes, two times a week at lunch time or at the end of the day (usually attended by adults). In addition, there are also summer intensive courses during the months of July, August and September.

Courses for Young Learners and Juniors
Young learners learn through a ‘hands on’ experience and, at Cambridge School, this is encouraged with communicative activities and games, using children’s energy and natural ability to imitate sounds and learn a new language.

Private Lessons
For those who want to study at their own pace, Cambridge School has several highly effective options for private lessons in English, French, German and Portuguese for Foreigners.
Our method ensures that students and teachers interact exclusively in the language being studied during the lessons. The knowledge and objectives of each student are initially evaluated in order to ensure an appropriate programme and goals. Tasks related to the students’ work and which require high levels of practical application oblige participants to use what they have learned in a useful way immediately.

Company Courses
In the business world, Cambridge School provides a portfolio of services in order to respond to the specific objectives of professionals
We provide the same quality of lively and dynamic teaching to groups of companies, whether they take place on our or on the company’s premises. Our programmes aim to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers.
Each company or individual will have different language skills and objectives and our pedagogical staff will always be available to analyse how Cambridge School can help you.

For further information, contact the school nearest to you and book an interview to assess your level and discuss the goals to be achieved. The interview is free of charge and there is no obligation to enrol. ”

The hotel, designed by architect Cassiano Branco, opened with a great apparatus, being for several decades a meeting point that brought together several leading figures of society. Even today, its common rooms keep the memory of this hotel recognized for its impeccable service and national and international prestige, being frequented by high society, politicians and intellectuals.

Great parties and events of a social and mundane nature, of conspiracies, eccentricities and scandals took place there. It was also the stage of bridge championships and of luxurious meals served on the hotel’s terraces, where war documentaries were seen, where people danced and where the roulette was played clandestinely until dawn. Among the regular guests, we could see Manuel Fontes Pereira de Melo and his wife Rita, Tomás Ribas, Francisco de Sousa Tavares, Sofia de Mello Breyner, Count of Covilhã, Count of Lousã or the magnate Patiño. The actor Omar Shariff, a bridge lover, had also played at the Hotel do Império.

Married since 1950 to the hotel manager, Alfredo Machado, Natália Correia and her friends were a constant presence. From 1953, the couple took up residence on the 5^th floor of nr. 52 on the same street, which became famous as a place for literary gatherings but also for the not less famous meals served there, coming from the Império Hotel, just across the street. Years later, and according to the testimony of Dórdio Leal Guimarães, Natália Correia isolated herself in the hotel to write the play «O Encoberto», which was prohibited at the time by censorship.

Political conspiracies also took place and the hotel received secret meetings with General Humberto Delgado, where in the months leading up to the 1958 elections Natália Correia and many other supporters were present.

More recently, writers and journalists like Assis Pacheco, Cardoso Pires, Batista Bastos, Joaquim Letria and the actor Raul Solnado were regular customers at the hotel’s Bar. Brazilian poet Vinícius de Moraes stayed here when he came to Portugal to participate in the Zip Zip TV program, as well as many other public figures including Vera Lagoa and Almirante Pinheiro de Azevedo after the 76 elections.

To respect the original building and to keep alive the memories of this unique hotel has been always guideline of the Hotel Britania, that has welcomed everyone for the last 77 years in the heart of Lisbon.

Photos: O Século, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

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Massimo Dutti store is located on Lisbon’s historic Avenida da Liberdade, nº 193, housed in an old stately residence built in the neoclassical style which has been completely restored, both inside and out. The interior renovation project has seen the participation of a recognized team of professionals such as the Lázaro Rosa Violan studio, responsible for interior de – sign; Anoche for lighting design and Jesús Moraime for landscaping design.

The new flagship store has three floors open to the public, featuring the various Massimo Dutti collections. In the basement you can find part of the Women’s Collection; the new perfume collection, Massimo Dutti Scents Collection, in a room of the house’s original kitchen; as well as a changing room area preceded by an anteroom for waiting and resting.

The ground floor houses the Women’s Collection, while the Men’s Collection is located on the first floor, with specific areas for the Night, Casual and Tailored collections. On the same floor a space has been set up for accessories in the area of the house’s old turret, as well as a spectacular bookshop in the till area for the display and sale of a selected collection of books about fashion, design and photography by the prestigious German publishing house Taschen.

A 19th century building classified as a Monument of Public Interest

The building in question is located on a corner plot between Avenida da Liberdade and Rua Barata Salgueiro. Built in late romantic style, this palace presents constructive elements inspired by the beauxarts style, mainly in the detail of the iron and steel pieces and in the originality of its interior decoration. With a rectangular foundation, the palace consists of four floors and a turret. Although there are no precise records on the use of the interior space, it can be stated with some certainty that the basement floor, which is slightly below the level of Avenida da Liberdade, was used for service spaces, the ground floor and the first floor were the stateliest spaces, intended for leisure activities (living room, dining room, library, etc.) and the bedrooms, and the attic was used for the servants’ quarters. The roof is covered with black French-style tiles. The building was developed in accordance with the practices of the time, which includes the ground floor being raised about half a floor; over the years, it has undergone certain changes, mainly seen in the main facade and turret.

With the recent intervention, the building was subject to some small-scale interior reconfigurations. Up to the date of the intervention, the building remained empty and, with Massimo Dutti´s intervention been able to contribute to the property’s value. All the interventions carried out are expected to be reversible, so that at any moment, the building can return to its original pre-project state. A new structure has been built on a site considered to have the least impact next to the south facade. The structure consists of stairs and an access elevator between floors -1 and 1, guaranteeing conditions to meet fire safety codes and to provide access for people with reduced mobility. The main goal has been the building’s restoration, making it more attractive and thus preventing the deterioration of heritage, as well as making use of the building by requalifying the city of Lisbon and thus protecting Portuguese heritage.

Light as a functional and aesthetic element

Taking into account the particular characteristics of the building, Massimo Dutti commissioned the renowned Anoche Iluminación Arquitectó – nica studio to carry out the lighting design. The project was developed in different stages and areas, taking into account the work in conjunction with the Massimo Dutti architecture team, and the interior design and landscaping design teams.

The Anoche team’s lighting design is such that when the store closes its doors to the public, the building remains completely lit. The main objective is to maintain the residential and warm character of the house. The entire lighting project responds to the principles of efficiency marked by Massimo Dutti which, in addition to satisfying visual needs and creating healthy, safe and comfortable environments, uses the most appropriate technological resources.

With its image of an old building, the aim of the Anoche team was to achieve adequate lighting for the brand’s commercial needs, all while keeping the residential and warm character. Thus, the priority was to provide direct lighting of the product through a type of functional light. To do so, a study was carried out in order to achieve the best lighting technique to enhance the product. The result was a detail light providing maximum comfort and efficiency. For ambient light, the team opted to place decorative light points at strategic points in the different rooms. The final result is the total integration between the required aesthetic and functional needs.

Designed to add color to dreams, this Private Space is located in downtown Lisbon, at Avenida da Liberdade, nº 92/100 – 2nd and 3rd Floor, in the building with the same name as its creator.

It’s in this place par excellence, that he receives at the highest level the clients that look for different pieces, where design and exclusivity are combined with luxury. The complexity of the simple, the elegant, distinguishes the haute couture pieces, with creator Tony Miranda’s signature, for both men and women. The careful selection of materials and the study of each body type, makes this place a unique example of the cult of image, design and timelessness of ideas.

The luxury Suits, both for men, in Tailoring, and for women, in molage, are selected first in form and then in content. Perfect symbiosis of silhouette/material where the creator does not neglect any detail. The fabric is carefully selected for each client, being exclusive or in limited series, depending on the goal to achieve.

All design details are analyzed depending on the client’s body, and a work done in stages is proposed where each accessory is different and exclusive.

Couture Line

It also has a “Pret-a-Porter” DeLuxo collection, executed in limited series, for men and women, which is adapted to the moment, for each client’s body, by the tailoring and sewing team of Atelier Tony Miranda.

Designed by the Architect Cassiano Branco, its inauguration on October 13th, 1944 as Hotel Império was widely reported by the press.

A special emphasis was given to the modernity of the building and the fact that the rooms are in reality, small apartments, with an antechamber, private bathroom and bedroom and in some cases with an extra parlor. Here we lived as a club that brought together great figures and here personalities with renowned names from high society – national and international – have come together. On these tables, books, poems, songs were written. It was most likely the setting for great stories of love, friendship and of moments that were part of recent history.

After 77 years, we reminded ourselves that respecting the building and keeping alive the memories of this unique hotel has been a great pleasure for us. The fascination lies in these memories and that was the reason why we wanted to share them with you,wishing that all those who come to us feel that they are also part of the history of this small Grand Hotel that in the heart of Lisbon has welcomed everyone for 75 years.

Come to Hotel Britania and appreciate the details!

The decoration

Following the news and photographs of that period we’ve undertaken, 60 years later, the idea of ​​the initial decoration and the different colors of the crystal in the chandeliers were the starting point for creating three color options that give the rooms completely different environments.

In this contemporary decoration, the great color stain of the fabric that always covers one of the walls of the rooms, subtly refers to the original 40’s decoration.

In the bedrooms, the carpets were removed and a cork mosaic floor, which is very difficult to find nowadays, was exposed. As it was 60 years ago when it was applied at the Hotel do Império, cork is again labeled as being a safe, comfortable and an ideal choice for our wellness. Made in 1944 by the prestigious Mundet Factory, the cork mosaic bonds with the corridors and bathrooms marble floors, repeating the same geometric motifs typically seen in an Art Deco style.

The pavement restoration was carried out manually according to the original design and technique.

The furniture, made in the early 1940´s specifically for the Hotel do Império by Móveis Costa, from Porto, had all elements set over after several decades. The beds made of solid mahogany recovered the purity of the original lines and for the remaining pieces of furniture, chrome fittings were designed and executed in the original modernist/deco style.