Sextant's Lisbon Studio in Cabinet Quarterly
A reading room of salvaged azulejo, borrowed light, and joinery cut from one fallen plane tree.
Feb 2026
All Dispatches
Sextant at Fold Festival, Porto
We'll be in Porto this autumn speaking alongside a small lineup of designers on the theme of "Slow Signals."
Sextant at Marginalia
We're joining the roster of typographers, binders, and printers at the annual book fair in Antwerp.
Introducing Casa Ferro
Our all-day counter and wine room, built around a salvaged tile floor, is open on Rua do Século.
Kestrel & Vane at Sextant
We welcomed the Rotterdam furniture duo to the studio for an evening of slides, cider, and unfinished chairs.
Ordnance Type at Sextant
Wren Aldstone joined us at the studio for an unhurried conversation about drawing letters for signage.
Workroom Study
When friends, collaborators, and neighbours pass through the studio, we photograph the room they change.
Sextant in Grain Journal
A short interview about the move to the waterfront and what we still believe print is for.
MARCH 12
LISBOA, PT
Sextant Talks: Cordoaria
Six short talks on wayfinding, held in the old rope factory with our friend Marta Reis.
The Ferryman Panel
We joined a panel of studio owners at the Ferryman during Design Week to talk about the shape of small practices.
Foundry Afterhours
We stopped by the Foundry's Brussels office for an evening talk about our work, our process, and our doubts.
RESTRAINT
CABINET
Why Restraint Reads Louder
Cabinet Quarterly ran our Thornwood work in a piece arguing that design is less about adding than removing.
Sextant × Halyard Demo Night
Halyard invited us to show prototypes and half-finished futures at their winter Demo Night in Rotterdam.
Lisbon Studio on Fieldbook
Nadia Oreste writes on the glass-brick partition, the cold room, and the plan we redrew four times.
Almond Relief Tee
When the chairmaker Otto Almond lost his workshop, we printed this tee. Every escudo went to rebuilding it.
Saturday Selects on Sight & Sound
We were glad the new reading room turned up in this week's Saturday roundup of favourites.
Tidewater at Casa Verde
Exhibition design and print collateral for Tidewater, a series of water installations by Inês Baptista and Rui Mendes.
ALMEIDA MARKET
Winter Supper at the Almeida
A long table above the market for everyone who built, drew, or argued with us this year.
Casa Verde on Hearth
Hearth covered the Casa Verde house, focusing on the stair we hung from a single steel spine.
Field Recording 2025
Our studio was named one of twenty-five practices worth watching, chosen by a jury of forty-one designers.
Thornwood in Communication Weekly
A short interview covering the background, the arguments, the favourite details, and the parts we cut.
Meridian on Fieldbook
A closer look at our project with Meridian: Lia Gorney on how the two teams drew together for eleven months.
Continental Assembly
We presented at Continental Assembly, an online gathering for designers, printers, and the people who brief them.
Casa Verde in Icon Quarterly
Icon Quarterly detailed how a single room gave the historic house a way to explain itself to visitors.
Aer Bottling on The Brand Index
How a modular label system and one narrow typeface let a carbon-capture bottler explain itself in six words.
OPX: Make Good Things
We joined host Dara Bennett for an hour on creative philosophy, working in pairs, and the work that keeps us going.
Waypoint at the Summer Keynote
The site we built for Waypoint was demoed during the summer keynote to show off the browser's new type features.
Marrow on Fieldbook
Fieldbook wrote up the site for Marrow, drawn line by line with the illustrator Jay Coverdale.
Interview with Ordnance Type
How the studio came to be, why we keep the shop front, and what we plan to build in the next room.