A sixteen-person atelier working between Portugal and Denmark. We take on twelve projects a year — private houses, restaurants, studios — and we stay from the first sketch to the last cushion. No templates, no showroom paste-ins.
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Palette no. 41
Almargem — oak, travertine, bouclé
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Inês Salgado · Founder & Creative Director
We started Oblique in a converted canning factory in Alcântara with one rule: never design a room you wouldn't want to sit in at 7am in February. Everything since has followed from that — the way light lands on a plaster wall, the sound a well-hung door makes, the grain direction of an oak shelf you'll touch ten thousand times.
Every project begins in plan and section. We resolve the architecture before we choose a single cushion — that's why our rooms still feel right ten years on.
Joinery from two family workshops in the Alentejo. Stone cut 40km from site. We keep the supply chain short enough to visit it on a Tuesday.
The designer you meet on the first call is the designer standing on site in month nine. No handover to a junior, no diluted intent.
You get a live cost sheet from week one, updated every Friday. Our average variance on the last 40 projects: 3.1%.
Tuesday review — Casa Pedra, week 14 of 22
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Take the whole house or just the lighting plan. Hover a line to see it; tap to open the detail.
Not sure which package fits? Send us a floor plan and we'll tell you honestly — sometimes the answer is "less".
Ask us anythingSix stages, twenty-two weeks on a typical full-house project. You'll always know which one you're in.
Every stage ends with something you can hold: a drawing, a board, a cost sheet. Nothing is "trust us".
Book stage 01 — it's freeOur designers use this in first meetings. Answer three questions about light, material and silhouette and we'll name the interior you keep describing badly — then build you a moodboard.
Question 01 / 03
Casa Almargem, a 1930s apartment in Campo de Ourique. Stripped back to the shell in March, handed over with the kettle on in June. Same walls, same windows, same square metres — a completely different building.
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Projects delivered
Across nine countries since 2009
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Awards & features
Including two Frame nominations
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Average budget variance
Measured on the last 40 builds
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Clients who come back
Or send a friend. Usually both.
Plus a workshop lead, two technicians, an FF&E buyer, and a very patient studio dog called Sola.
We broke up 34 open plans last year and rebuilt eleven of them with walls. Here's the acoustic data, the smell problem nobody mentions, and the half-measure that usually wins.
Read the essay
Vein direction, book-matching costs, and why the sample in your hand is lying to you.
Ambient, task, accent, architectural, and the one we call "the 11pm layer".
A real cost sheet, redacted only for the client's surname.
Something we haven't covered? Inês answers the inbox herself on Wednesday mornings.
hello@studiooblique.ptTell us about the space and roughly what you're dreaming of. We reply to every enquiry within one business day — usually with three questions and a suggested call time.
Lisbon studio
Fábrica Confiança, Rua da Boavista 84
1200-068 Lisboa
Copenhagen showroom
Værnedamsvej 12, 1st floor
1819 Frederiksberg C
Open hours
Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00
Saturday by appointment
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