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Founded in 1840 by the sisters Maria Teresa and Gertrudes Férin - first as a Reading Office and later transformed by Maria Teresa into a bookshop -, Férin was also a typography, publisher and had a bookbinding workshop, eventually being named the Official Bookbinder of the Royal House, at the behest of King D. Pedro V. Standing out for its extensive catalog of foreign books, it became a cultural hub that had as its clientele great personalities and writers such as Eça de Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa, standing out for its offer of works heraldry, genealogy, historical research and military history, travel itineraries and national and foreign art editions.

The second oldest bookshop in Lisbon closed its doors, as such, at the end of 2023, without anyone from the same sector wanting to take it back. Thus, A Vida Portuguesa, as it has done in other historic spaces it has occupied and continues to occupy, is committed to returning an old shop to the city, preserved and restored down to the last detail. And for the sake of our memory, we decided that the book section will be located right at the entrance, in this new shop that will be much larger than the previous one, at Rua Anchieta.

In this first phase, we will only open the upper floor - to Rua Nova do Almada -, in mid-October 2024 we plan to open the lower floor in full!