Picture Postcards: Haberdashery shopfront in Lisbon, Portugal

marie February 13, 2012 3 comments picture postcards, Portugal, shopfronts

This week’s shopfront is in Lisbon, Portugal and the photo was taken by our contributing editor, Ana.

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Marie Szamborski
Marie lives in Auckland, New Zealand but was born in the United States and is a dual-national. She has lived in five countries altogether but sees New Zealand as her real home base. She loves travel, and living in multi-cultural Auckland is the next best thing to being out there.
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deebee

on Feb 14, 2012
at 8:19 am

This is a splendid Art Nouveau front-shop! It is so rare now to find this sort of thing now!
Is it listed?

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Ana

on Feb 14, 2012
at 3:08 pm

I have no idea whether it’s listed or not. I sincerely hope it is.

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Sandra

on Feb 16, 2012
at 10:30 am

The historical Bijou in Rua da Conceição I read a document of the city hall about it but I didn’t find any stating about Bijou as a listed building. Initially, this building was a bookstore/stationery (1910). Only in 1915 became a “retrosaria” (haberdashery). In 1922, the grandfather of the current owner took the leadership of the store and Bijou achieved its Golden Age after WWII. I must go back there in my next visit to Lisbon.
The picture also shows us the typical Portuguese sidewalks. We called it “Calçada Portuguesa”.

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