pink tile shelf with items
The pink and orange display case along one of the walls has been clad with the design duo’s signature mosaic tiles.

August 14, 2025

Words: Ian Phillips

Photography: Alessandra Farias

Dive Into This Colorful Pâtisserie Bursting With Mosaic Charm

Founded in 2023 by the French duo Geoffrey Despierres and Émeline Marlière, Lisbon-based StudioBom takes a playful approach to design. Its name is a tongue-in-cheek play on the everyday Portuguese expression tudo bom, meaning “everything is fine.” Reminiscent of geometric blocks, their furniture creations consist of simple forms clad with a multitude of wonderfully bright and colorful small mosaic tiles.

The couple’s very first interior design project is something of a return to their Gallic roots: a French pâtisserie on the ground floor of a new residential building in the Portuguese capital’s Amoreiras district. It was almost meant to be, given that the bakery is called Bombom. “The coincidence is quite improbable,” Marlière says. “We have a WhatsApp group with the owners named ‘Les BomBomboms.’”

StudioBom Adds a Zest of Color to This Portuguese Bakery

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StudioBom was hired to inject a zest of color into the BomBom pâtisserie in Lisbon. The palette was inspired largely by the hues of the cakes sold there.
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The bright hues inside have the added advantage of catching the attention of passersby.

For the project, the BomBom proprietors had initially called upon a local Portuguese architectural firm, which had proposed a largely beige scheme and installed the long marble counter and fossilized stone flooring still in place. But as the project progressed, they realized something was missing and called upon StudioBom to inject a touch of zest into the 1,600-square-foot interior. “They wanted a more dynamic, contemporary feel,” Marlière explains. The space is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows, so they needed something that would catch people’s attention from the street.

What StudioBom came up with certainly does that. They added several brightly hued elements covered in their trademark mosaics, such as an orange and pink display case with an adjacent matching table, a 20-foot-long counter in deep forest green equipped with wooden bar stools, and a vivid yellow bench wrapped around part of the store’s perimeter. Each element provides a solid block of color that defines the pâtisserie’s different zones.

Pastry Meets Pattern in This Dynamic Pâtisserie

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Running along one side of the shop, the dark green counter is nearly 20 feet long. The pendant lights from Crème Atelier above it are made from biodegradable plastic.
corner nook of the cafe with wooden chairs
Kodama chairs in oak from Veskor are paired with custom tables in painted steel and Sintra marble.

The two-toned tile tables were given a slight twist—literally. The square shape of the orange legs extends visually up the table through orange tiles among pink tiles. The orange tiles are rotated by 45 degrees to appear diamond-shaped, as if the legs twisted at the top. “That’s typical of our work,” Despierres says. “We often introduce an unexpected, unconventional touch.” In other words, something lighthearted and bom.

Enjoy the Colorful Vibes From This Bakery by StudioBom

pink tile shelf with items
The pink and orange display case adorned with the design duo’s signature mosaic tiles.
closeup of pink tables in the cafe
One of the high tables has been equipped with “Lou” bar stools from Tiptoe in steel and solid oak. The flooring throughout is a Portuguese stone called Lioz de Sintra.
pink tabletop with diamond motif
The table’s top bears diamond motifs, which look like a continuation of the legs, but rotated at 45 degrees.
view of counter tables separated by tile sections
The blocks of solid color help to define the shop’s different zones.

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