The Sardine collection by Bordallo Pinheiro results from a collaboration between the Earthenware Factory of Caldas da Rainha, founded in 1884 by Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, EGEAC (Lisbon’s Cultural and Animation municipal entity). And Lisbon’s City Council.
The original Bordallo Pinheiro’s Sardine, designed in the XIX century, due to its classic three-dimensional nature, became the ideal support for receiving the creative work that EGEAC develops since 2003, within Lisbon’s Festivities, which transformed the sardine, iconic fish of Portuguese culture and gastronomy, an international icon of the city and of Summer celebrations of the Portuguese capital.
This sardine warns of the damaging effects of plastic on the environment, namely the oceans. Defending the environment is everyone's responsibility, in everything we do, in everything we are in the world we live in. It's important that we think, every day, about how we can be more responsible.
Designer: Cuca Roseta
The sardine is skin for Ljubomir Stanisic, part of who he is. This was what bound him to Portugal. Written inside this Bordallo sardine are some of the tattoos that Hugo Makarov has drawn on his skin over the last 15 years, illustrating his life from infancy in Bosnia to the family raised in Portugal. There is blood, sweat and tears in these paintings.
Designer: Ljubomir Stanisic
Inspired by Michelangelo's work, The creation of Adam, a fresco painted on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel in the 16th century, we contemplate the mythical (and mystical) moment the Sardine was created.
Designer: Teresa Dias
This sardine is inspired by the Lisbon that Gisela sees: luminous, fresh, unburdened, joyful, a female city, a woman. Hence the pure crisp white, and also the hearts, because it's a city that, for all these reasons, invites her to love life.
Designer: Gisela João
Inspired by the typical carts of chestnut sellers who, from the start of October occupy the country's streets, it spreads its special aroma. On 11 November, blessed by the summer sun of Saint Martin, this Saint's day is celebrated with chestnuts soaked in jeropiga (a type of sweet wine) and piquette.
Designer: Ana Sofia Gonçalves
The combination of two flavors immediately associated with Portugal. One of them is the sardine (present in multiple national festivities, such as those honoring Popular Saints) and another iconic flavor: that of childhood chocolates, bought in corner shops and displayed in punch hole boxes.
Designer: Maria Beatriz Soares
This sardine wished to pay homage to the old school “battery radio”, so typical of Lisbon's neighborhoods, where through the windows one could hear, on a short-wave radio, the radio soap opera, Fado and football reports, which gave so many joys and sorrows to the people who listened to them. You did it!
Designer: Luís Barata
All that matters is feeling Fado. Because Fado doesn't sing, it happens. Fado feels, it doesn't understand, it doesn't explain. 2020 marks 100 years since the birth of the greatest figure in Portuguese Fado, and one of the greatest voices the world has ever known. And what a voice! Congratulations Amália!
Designer: Ana Gomes
My name is Douglas DC-3, but I prefer to be called Dakota. I'm a classic of aviation, twin-engine, propeller driven. I was a pioneer at TAP and from the 1940s I connected Lisbon to Angola and Mozambique transporting passengers in comfort and safety. I am currently in the Air Museum. In the form of a sardine, I now honor the 75 years of the Portuguese airlines. Congratulations!
Designer: TAP
In the time when fishmongers sold what they carried in their baskets, surely everything was valued and in sustainable quantities. The product was always covered with a beautiful cloth of Portuguese embroidery! Long live local tradition!
Designer: Raquel Marto
There's a world full of species in the ocean, one of them being the sardine. And what a beautiful specimen it is. Combining drawing, poetry and environmental awareness, this creation pays homage to the ocean, the harmony of life at sea, and the character of the sardine, showing how it would be at the peak of its life, dancing freely through the seas.
Designer: Margarida Moreira
Winner of the acclaimed Lisbon contest “Chintz Dress" (being the only candidate in the contest), the graceful, garish Lisboeta sardine features a model inspired in the 50's, in Pombaline chintz, set off by an English embroidery ribbon. And as the Fado says: “There goes fancy/ Everyday more beautiful/ And her chintz dress/ Always has a Sunday look”. Reminds us of Raquel Tavares, doesn't it?
Designer: Raquel Tavares