Inside Atelier Moraes, the Four-Person Studio Lisbon Keeps Hiring
A small practice with a long client list explains why it refuses to grow past one table.
By Priya Nakamura
Atelier Moraes works from a single room in Alfama with one long table and four chairs. The studio has turned away more work this year than it has taken on.
Founder Lúcia Moraes caps every project at one partner and one designer, and staggers start dates so no two deliverables land in the same week.
In practice
Clients wait, sometimes for months. Most of them come back.
The table is the business plan. When it is full, we are full.
Lúcia Moraes
