Raising the roof: lofty ambitions in Lisbon

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London-based designer Rui Ribeiro returns to his roots to create a pied-à-terre in the Portuguese capital

set about looking for a pied-à-terre in Lisbon, it took him five years to find the ideal place. “I wanted an apartment in an old building and it was imperative for me that it had a lift and a garage,” he says. He was also intent on buying in the historic Chiado district, where he had lived in his late-teens and early 20s. “It was so different back then,” he recalls, “there was a certain innocence about Lisbon 30 years ago that is not there any more.

 

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