Chronicle for Lisbon: Chandelier at the bakery

It was always there that the bread came. It is true that at one point also the sweets and meals in "Pepe Rápido" mode began to attract more people to number 209 of Silva Carvalho Street. But for me, for once the phrase "I am more cakes", the confectioner Jose Severino (thank you, Herman!), Does not apply. Going to the Mechanical Bakery, just around the corner from the Students of Apollo, on the border of Campo de Ourique-Amoreiras, it is very dear to fill your eyes with beautiful things.

Before entering, there is all that iron painted green and the two large windows that let the facade breathe at the level of the ground. Once inside, the visual confusion created by the mirrors can not distract us from the tiles out of the Bordalo Pinheiro Factory, full of colorful flowers, ears of wheat, wide-eyed butterflies and birds caught in flight. Together with the worked stucco and the decorative paintings, they make of this store an Array of Arte Nova.

The bread ovens appeared there in 1902, at a time when Silva Carvalho was still called Rua de São João dos Bem Marados, because of the neighboring quinta with the same name. A little later, it would be one of the city's first bakeries with mechanical manufacturing. Today, there are also its chandeliers - anachronistic and romantic - that remain in the memory of those who enter.