There are 110 years, José Pinto de Sousa Lello and Brother Antonio Lello opened the doors of Lello & amp; Brother, Rua das Carmelitas Porto. This would have painted facade with bright colors, which emoldurassem the female figures of Art and Science, still read today in the descriptive record that the brothers wrote in 1906. Following this accident, the Lello Bookshop underwent restoration that returned the color the most famous bookstore in the city.
the work of restoration, which began in April this year, wanted to restore the building’s original essence and fell on the 12 layers of paint, made at least five interventions on the facade of building to find the original colors, the photographs of the time and left believing they were there. And these are colors that are now on display, since “much of the surface that we see is the original painting,” said Joel Cleto, historian and Porto archaeologist who on Saturday made the presentation of the new, yet older ever, face Lello.
in the presentation, on Saturday morning, two men went down the facade of the building making droop white cloth that was covering the colors of this restoration and giving it to know the curious audience there joined.
over the years, the facade have been painted five times and suffered successive coats that reduced the shades of beige and black, that skirted the lyrics and the original figures drawn by José Bielman. After more than a century that the façade is being changed, it was now possible to recover large surfaces with the original painting, using the techniques involving chemical and laboratory analysis.
This many attempts are added to tune the color until you find the original tones. More than 40 color shows later, “the restoration is truly remarkable,” he stressed several times Joel Cleto.
For the first time removed the stained glass inside the bookstore. Clean, restored and renovated structures that supported this stained glass eight meters long, with 55 panels, back to “illuminate the inside of the bookstore, knowledge, art and science,” serving the original purpose for which it was placed in 1906, he recalled the historian. From outside, there were many curious and invited to this presentation that photographed the “architecture of light” in this space.
“There is a new light, a light that as in 1906 back to light this Cathedral art and science, “are the words of Joel Cleto on which José Manuel Lello nodded in agreement. The administrator of the bookstore believes that this work enhances the building and the city -. Not just the library that receives about three thousand people a day
They sell five thousand books a week, about 300,000 to year in Lello Bookshop. Numbers more than quadrupled in the space of a year when the library began charging entry to anyone visiting the area, but does not come out with a book.
Both administrators, José Manuel Lello and Pedro Pinto as the historian and the Regional Direction of Northern Culture, which confirms the process, they believe they are the conditions of durability of the house, which once met the wear and degradation of its interior. It was also why, in this first phase of the restoration, interventions were also made in the building structure. A job that is not visible, but “will allow Lello continue to be an essential reference at national and international level,” admitted Joel Cleto.
During these four months of restoration work, the library remained are open, except the period that the safety equipment is mounted. Since then, the facade had even stronger colors with the graffiters Mr. Dheo and Pariz One to sign the panel that hid the scaffolding until a few days
In a presentation which was attended by the councilor of the Chamber of Porto, Manuel Pizarro.; the rector of the University of Porto, Sebastian Feyo de Azevedo; and former Minister of Culture, João Soares; José Manuel Lello announced that it will begin “soon” the interior restoration work of the bookstore.
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