Viúva Lamego is the main responsible for the evolution and practice of Portuguese tile and already has 172 years of history. Built between 1849 and 1865, the Viúva Lamego factory building was, at the time, the pottery workshop of António Costa Lamego, a craft very common in that area of Lisbon. As part of my master's degree in graphic design, a partnership was created with the company to show all the history and the countless tiles produced over these 172 years.
In this editorial object (with one hundred and twenty pages) it is possible to see the entire history of Viúva Lamego, the construction process of the tile, several articles about the workers, national and international partnerships with various artists and even a set of previously unpublished images by the photographer Pedro Mestre.
Here are some spreads of the book.
