Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon

OITOEMPONTO restores the original splendour to the rooms of the Four Seasons Hotel Ritz in Lisbon.

The Four Seasons Hotel Ritz in Lisbon by the architectural duo OITOEMPONTO represents a perfect compromise between modernity and decorative luxury while paying tribute to 60 years of history.

The meeting was obvious. Between the Ritz in Lisbon and the interior designers Artur Miranda and Jacques Bec, there was already an invisible link.

The duo does not intend to mark its territory on the hotel. For the bedrooms, the period furniture has been redesigned, sometimes with new proportions. Chests of drawers have become night tables. Armchairs have been given more volume. The colour palette was designed to evoke the 1960s, with a cameo of beige, grey, tobacco, white, and a few touches of ochre, brick and duck blue. With the same aim, blond wood was favoured for the furniture. Oak for the headboard, varnished oak for the desk and the pedestal table.

In the corridors, the approach was the same, with a model of old wall lamp, but multiplied for a theatrical effect, walls covered with a textile that looks like Japanese straw and a carpet with an abstract pattern inspired this time by the Portuguese paving known as “calçada”.

These improvements correspond to a first phase of work that concerns three of the ten floors. Four other floors are underway, in a more classic, more Art Deco spirit, still using furniture recovered from the storerooms.

Also to come, on the 6th floor, three suites united and treated as a private club, a lounge, which OITOEMPONTO has decorated with woodwork, Zuber panoramic windows and Fortuny fabrics. A rereading of the 18th century in the style of the 1960s.