- Type
- Cosmetology studio
- Location · Year
- Lisbon, Saldanha · 2025
- Interior design
- MT.A · Dezeen Awards 2026 nominee
- Built by
- Forma Studio
Steel spheres, hidden light.
Nominated for the Dezeen Awards 2026. MT.A designed Pause as the opposite of a white clinic: a warm, terracotta-toned studio for face treatments in Saldanha. Its centrepiece is a soft-blue shelving system that seems to float. The shelves rest on polished steel spheres around a two-part steel pole from floor to ceiling. The wiring for the shelf lights runs inside the pole, so nothing is visible — and nothing moves.
What we made
- 01Reception desk. Sky-blue, in oak veneer, with integrated polished steel spheres and LED shelf lighting.
- 02Shelving system. Shelves on a two-part steel pole, held on polished steel spheres; the wiring for the lights runs inside the pole.
- 03Lettering. The studio line on the wall, 3D-printed in our own workshop.
Oak veneer · steel · PU paint · LED · 3D-printed lettering
Look closer.
Each shelf sits on a steel sphere around the pole. The cable for its light runs up inside the pole and into the shelf — you see the light, not the wire.
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