Unique Art Nouveau model in Portugal, Kiosk da Estrela was inaugurated
in 1909 on the sidewalk of the right side of Basílica da Estrela in Lisbon, and
served as a taxi station and later as a fender for the gas station attendant
located across the street. Nowadays it has been restored by Mercado de Campo de
Ourique and serves as an open coffee-shop. It is composed of a square masonry
base, a body with windows on three sides with sliding sideboards, a dome united
to the body by iron corbels in the shape of swans and a very artistic zinc roof
with fish scales and laced elements.
This paper miniature was designed in five main materials - mostly paper,
plastic fiber (printed in a 3D printer) in the swans and lacings, acrylic paint
and brushwood for the columns that sustain part of the body and fabric on the
roof. Its structure is almost identical to the real Kiosk, but its decoration
differs a little. The kiosk may function as a lamp with string lights on the inside A “Kiosk da Estrela” is hand-made in its majority and takes
one week to create.