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A guest room at the MACAM Hotel, the terracotta panelled wall behind the bed and a cove of light running the ceiling.

MACAM Hotel, Lisboa

Hospitality

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Hospitality

Guest rooms, apartments, corridors and facades. Light that behaves like the light of a house and survives the use of a hotel.

Guest rooms

A guest room at the MACAM Hotel, the terracotta panelled wall behind the bed and a cove of light running the ceiling. — Guest room, terracotta panelling

The same room from the other side, the wardrobes washed by a cove and the herringbone floor running to the door. — The same room, from the wardrobe side

The bathroom of the same room, the fluted terracotta tile grazed with light and the round mirror backlit. — Bathroom, fluted tile

A room in taupe, vertical wall lights flanking the painting and the cove washing the ceiling above linen curtains. — Guest room, taupe

A painting on a narrow beam above the marble desk, the table lamp making the second layer. — Painting and desk

A suite bathroom, a cove of light running the whole ceiling, tall mirrors and a freestanding tub. — Suite bathroom

The principal suite beneath its painted nineteenth-century dome, lifted by a continuous cove of light. — Principal suite

A guest room seen through the frosted glass partition, the ceiling washed by a cove and a floor lamp over herringbone parquet. — Guest room, through frosted glass

A room in deep blue, the cove separating the pale ceiling from the dark walls and wall lights flanking the painting. — Guest room, deep blue

The bathroom of a new-wing room, the fluted glass shower at the left, the backlit round mirror over the stone basin and the timber shelf washed from below. — Bathroom, new wing

Common spaces

The state staircase of the palace, a cascade of crystal globes falling from the dome over the wrought-iron balustrade. — State staircase

The hotel library under its cove-washed dome, linear light built into the shelving, the crystal chandelier at the centre and the palace monograms on the spandrels. — Library

A guest floor corridor, vertical linear wall lights on the plastered wall and a cove washing the ceiling to the far end. — Guest floor corridor

The monumental staircase seen from below, its two flights opening under the cascade of globes with the lit enfilade beyond. — Monumental staircase

Exteriors

The MACAM complex at night: the palace facade grazed with light and returned by the water mirror, light lines set into the paving, and at the right the perforated ceramic facade of the new wing. — The complex at night