Teatro Eden, Lisbon

I have a love for Art Nouveau and Art Deco and was thrilled to find this beautiful old theater in the centre of Lisbon.
This was one of Lisbon’s major cinema/theatre buildings. It was built in 1931 in the main city square Praca dos Restauradores.
Across the top of the huge facade is a stone frieze depicting stylized actors performing before a film crew and cameras.

 On the ground floor there was an arcade of shops and the theatre was reached by a series of stairways which led onto the first floor where the actual theatre entrance was located.
Sadly this magnificent cinema closed in 1989 and lay unused for many years. It was used as a location in the Wim Wenders movie “Until the End of the World” (1991).
In 2001 it was converted into a 134 room apartment hotel known as the Orion Eden Hotel.  The rooms are apparently ‘pie-shaped’ to fit inside the former auditorium space.
So now you know where I want to stay next time I go to Lisbon.

These are close-ups of the motif at the top, going from left to right. This is the far left..

Here's the design at the center.

The far right.