Issue 44
Lisbon

Linden Issue Forty-Four reads Lisbon as both a working port and a long-running argument about light. The city has spent five centuries facing outward, and that habit shows in everything from its tilework to its timetables: an unhurried, salt-air version of modern life where the hills do the editing for you.

The issue follows that thread through the neighbourhoods. In Alcântara we sit with ceramicist Ana Vasques as she fires a commission for a restaurant that has not opened yet. Further east, we tour the Beires House, built by hand over nine winters from cork, lime and salvaged pine. Cook Tomás Beires shares a seven-plate menu built around what the Wednesday market has left, while 94-year-old archivist Leonor Sá walks us through a century of the city told in ferry tickets.