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Grijó Monastery Narthex

Project: Conservation and restoration of the Nártex of the Monastery of Grijó Year: 2017 Location: Grijó, Vila Nova de Gaia Background: Monastery of São Salvador de Grijó Description: Conservation and restoration of ceramic tiles (chequered composition) and stone elements, namely the ceiling; columns; door frames; pavement and ashlar in schist plates. Intervention: The intervention included: […]

Lion’s Yard, Diana´s Yard and Kitchen Maintenance

Project: Rehabilitation of the Lion’s Yard, Diana´s Yard and Kitchen Maintenance of the National Palace of Sintra Year: 2016/17 Location: Sintra Background: National Palace of Sintra Description: The following elements were intervened: In the Patio do Leão, the coverings with edge tiles in the façades; staircase and benches; plastering of the façades some with sgrafiti […]

Smoking Room Pena National Palace

Project: Conservation and restoration of the Smoking Room of the Pena National Palace Year: 2018 Location: Sintra Background: Pena National Palace Description: Conservation and restoration of ceilings and walls in decorative plaster; stonework; baseboards; floors; wooden windows and metallic elements. Intervention: The conservation and restoration intervention included the following actions: collection of samples for stratigraphic […]

Entroncamento train station

Project: Entroncamento train station Year: 2021 Location: Entroncamento Background: Estação Ferroviária do Entroncamento Description: Ceramic tile panels, in the famous “enxaquetados” form, made in the now extinct Sacavém ceramic fabric, half-squared style in blue and white pattern. Intervention: The conservation and restoration intervention focused on the material stabilization of the tiles, namely by lifting the […]

Royal Kitchen National Sintra Palace

Project: Conservation and restoration of the country’s most famous kitchen Year: 2016 Location: Sintra Background: Sintra National Palace Description: Tiles; stonework; plasters and metal elements from the Royal Kitchen of Sintra National Palace. Intervention: The intervention consisted in the conservation and restoration of ceramic tiles (260 m2), plaster (250 m2), stonework and metallic elements, with […]

Parish Church of Ota

Project: Tile Coating of the Parish Church of Ota Year: 2016 Location: Ota Background: Parish Church of Ota Description: Tile lining of the Parish Church of Ota. The tiles that cover its interior walls – standard silhouettes dating from the 17th century – have two types of 2×2 standardization: diamond tip, referenced by Santos Simões […]

Pena National Palace

Project: Conservation and restoration of Pena National Palace facades Year: 2014 Location: Sintra Background: Pena National Palace Description: Conservation and restoration intervention of about 340m2 of tiles and 1000 m2 of stonework in the main buildings of the Palace. Namely in the following locations: Northwest Facade Sudeste Southeast facade Galilee Iron Door Alhambra Arch Clock […]

Manueline Cloister Pena National Palace

Project: Conservation and restoration intervention of the Manueline Cloister of the Pena National Palace Year: 2017/18 Location: Sintra Background: Pena´s National Palace Description: The following elements were intervened: the ceramic coverings of the façades and floor of the Cloister; the Chapel of S. Jerónimo (integrated in the Lower Gallery and characterized by the cladding with […]

Casa dos Amigos do Minho Building

Project: Conservation and Restoration Intervention of the Casa dos Amigos do Minho Building Facade Year: 2014 Location: Lisbon Background: Building no. 244 at Rua do Benformoso in Lisbon Description: Nineteenth century building with a façade lined with polychrome tiles, in one of the rarest tile patterns of the twentieth century, in the city of Lisbon, […]

Tile Panel by André Saraiva

Project: Laying of the Tile Panel by André Saraiva Year: 2016 Location: Campo de Santa Clara, Lisbon Background: Flea Market – Jardim Botto Machado Containment Wall Description: Panel designed by the Portuguese descendant artist André Saraiva, with about 53000 tiles, 1011.1 m2, distributed in 188 meters in length. The tiles were hand painted in graffiti […]

Tile Panels of Elvas Station

Project: Intervention of the Elvas Station Tile Panels Year: 2017 Location: Elvas Background: Elvas Train Station Description: Blue and white figurative tile panels, alluding to local themes, with shelled and floral motifs in yellow and purple. Toponymic tile panels with blue letters on white background. Plain brown tile panels. Created by Constância Factory, Leopoldo Battistini […]

Stolen Lord’s Pattern

Project: Conservation intervention of the Stolen Lors´s Pattern Year: 2018 Location: Odivelas Background: Next to Senhor Roubado metro station Description: Panel with the pattern of the Stolen Lord, several figurations in shades of blue, dating from 1747, which illustrate the cartoon episodes of the theft of the Blessed Sacrament, which occurred in the Convent of […]

São Clemente Palace

Project: Conservation and restoration of the tiles and ceramic fountain of the São Clemente Palace Year: 2011 Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Background: São Clemente Palace Description: Conservation intervention in the ceramic fountain by the artist Jorge Barradas and the facade panels of the São Clemente palace in Rio de Janeiro, then home to the […]

Semide Convent

Project: Conservation and Restoration Intervention of Tile Panels inside St. Joseph’s Parish Church Year: 2016 Location: Semide, Miranda do Corvo Background: Cloister of the Monastery of Santa Maria de Semide Description: Late 18th century tile set, located in the Renaissance cloister of the Monastery, representing bucolic motifs in tones blue; yellow; green and manganese. Intervention: […]

Pinhão Station

Project: Conservation and restoration of the tile panels at the Pinhão Station Year: 2011 Location: Pinhão, Vila Real Background: Pinhão Station Description: Conservation and restoration intervention in the 14 panels found at the CP station, in Pinhão, on the historic Douro Line. They are figurative panels in blue tones with polychrome borders, painted at Fábrica […]

Diocesan Museum of Santarém

Project: Conservation, restoration and transfer of 3 panels of the Santarém Cathedral Year: 2015 Location: Santarém Background: Cathedral and Diocesan Museum of Santarém Description: Three panels of tiles, inserted in Lot D, located in the cloister or old study courtyard and in the outer courtyard with access to the refectory of Santarém Cathedral. The panels, […]

Mendonça Palace

Project: Rehabilitation of the Mendonça Palace for the residence of Prince Aga Khan. Year: 2018/19 Location: Lisbon Background: Mendonça Palace Description: Rehabilitation intervention that included all exterior stone elements; wooden spans; historic renders and roof skylights. In a second phase, an intervention of conservation and restoration of the walls and entrance of the Palace was […]

Trindade Brewery

Project: Conservation and restoration of the tile covering of the interior of Trindade Brewery Year: 2014 Location: Chiado, Lisbon Background: Trindade Brewery Description: Tiled panels of the interior lining of the centenary Cervejaria Trindade restaurant, namely 42 individual panels and 1 ashlar divided into 3 murals, distributed across the 3 rooms of the brewery. Intervention: […]