Fabrico Próprio Generation

Text Inês Matos Andrade
Images Ivo Oliveira Rodrigues

Over the nearly 17 years of the Fabrico Próprio project we witnessed the emergence of a “Fabrico Próprio generation”, in which both designer-pastry chefs and pastry chef-designers were inspired by our work in their rethinking of semi-industrial Portuguese pastry. Going far beyond original formal experiments, their proposals emphasised a more regimented and healthy consumption of pastries, while also highlighting the need for greater quality control and the creation of nutritional alternatives – with more and better research, development, imagination and design.

This new generation includes projects developed in the academic field, both in universities and design schools and in professional culinary schools. But also experiences developed at a professional level, such as Rui Pereira and Ryosuke Fukusada’s “Sapore dei Mobili“, Cristina Castro’s Doçaria Portuguesa guides and Ana Raminhos‘s “Pastelaria Artesanal” and “Raminhos Desserts” endeavours. We also observed the rise of young master pastry chefs like Carlos Fernandes, Filipe Almeida Santos or Andreia and Telmo Moutinho, who have focused their activity not only on creating original recipes but also on sharing knowledge and consolidating a professional class, where design is seen as a fundamental component.

Text: Inês Matos Andrade
Images: Ivo Oliveira Rodrigues

Ivo Oliveira Rodrigues

Ivo Oliveira Rodrigues graduated in Product Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon in 2012. Since 2009 he collects objects ranging from anonymous products to industrial design icons. Between 2012 and 2017 he taught at ESART in Castelo Branco and since 2018 also at ESAD.CR in Caldas da Rainha. He develops personal projects in different fields, such as product design, graphic design, illustration and photography.

Inês Matos Andrade

She has enjoyed eating since she was a plump, pink, six-month-old baby who sweated profusely while suckling. As a teenager, she filled dozens of diaries on family trips with visual, taste and smell descriptions of the meals she took throughout the day, and stole menus from the restaurants she visited. She studied journalism at the University of Porto’s Faculty of Letters, was the Comer&Beber section editor at Time Out Porto and Lisbon and is currently the director of the gastronomy and events department at O Apartamento agency. Along the way she has written here and there, for Fare Magazine and Farta magazine, which highlights popular Portuguese gastronomy; or for the Parts Unknown program’s digital guide; she was responsible for editing the first Lisbon Insiders guides and was the gastronomic curator of the Lisboa Criola project. During the pandemic, she ventured into fiction and was distinguished with an Honorable Mention by Dulce Maria Cardoso, Afonso Cruz, João Tordo and Conceição Antunes, jury of the Fnac New Talents Award, with the short story “Prova de Vida”.
She sleeps eight hours a day, works another eight, and the remaining eight are spent cooking, eating, researching food, putting together maps and restaurant guides or posting about it on the Instagram account @inesmatosandrade.