CONCEPT & FACADE

The design of Lord Stow Bakery & Café celebrates the life, works, and mission of the late English-born Macau resident Andrew Stow. Affectionately referred to by locals as “Lord Stow,” he helped revitalize the peninsula’s interest in the Portuguese pasteis de nata or “egg tart,” developing his signature version and setting off a culinary frenzy throughout Asia. The Lord Stow’s design incorporates four important elements of his life: his English roots (English traditional), his arrival in Macau in the 1970s (Seventies pop culture), his early pharmaceutical career (industrial), and his later famed culinary activities (laboratory). The shop’s façade makes use of all of these elements combining traditional English molding, industrial metals, and Seventies color palette and artwork with glass fixtures resembling a scientific testing ground.

BAKERY

The Bakery design shows how the four stages of Andrew Stow’s life were incorporated into the overarching concept and expressed in the use of materials. For example, the pastry counter and cabinet are composed of industrial elements (black steel and concrete), but lined with traditional English tin panel, as is the ceiling. The high dining counter is stainless steel, a nod to his scientific endeavors. Glass fixtures and artwork are a tribute to his culinary pursuits.

BAR / SHOW KITCHEN

Guests can enjoy drinks, pastries, and salads at the bakery’s show kitchen/bar designed according to the contours of Stow’s own life. The Bar/Show Kitchen is composed of industrial concrete and black steel and lined with tin panels. Background brick walls augment this industrial framing. Especially prominent, however, is the space’s use of Seventies-style furnishings in bold colors, as well as the raised installation composed of rows of culinary ingredients showcased in beakers and test tubes.

DINING

The primary dining area is the café’s most colorful bringing into sharp relief the vibrancy of the overall concept. Diners are enveloped by industrial brick walls with traditional English molding and trim. Furniture exudes Seventies style, patterns, and palette. Two unique partitions—one made of steel framing, an artistic collage of Seventies-style fabrics, the other glass, showcasing select 1970s vinyl—give off a fun, creative air.