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Electa, Published 1994. Paperback, 178 pp.; 24 cm; text in Portuguese and French; illustrated with color photographs throughout. In good+ condition. Glossy pictorial paperback; creasing to bottom corner of front cover; light bumping to edges and mild surface and edge wear with some peeling to the thin clear plastic coating along the edges of the rear cover. Mild creasing to spine; binding tight. Interior pages clean and unmarked.Exhibition catalog published by Electa, Milan, for an exhibition presented at the Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, 30 March to 30 June 1994, organized by the Sociedade Lisboa 94 in the context of Lisbon's designation as European Capital of Culture 1994, with the support of EXPO '98. The catalog documents the collection of Luís Duarte Pádua Ramos, a Portuguese architect whose decades-long pursuit of signed industrial decorative arts traces the production of European glass and ceramics from Art Nouveau through Postmodernism. Texts by Jean-Luc Olivié (Conservateur, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris) and João Castel-Branco Pereira (Director, Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon).Contents: Apresentação / Présentation; O espírito de uma colecção / L'esprit d'une collection; Os objectos em vidro Art Nouveau e Art Déco / Verreries Art Nouveau et Art Déco; Cerâmica e esmalte do período Art Déco / Céramique et émail de la période Art Déco; Peças únicas e em série: Objectos de cerâmica e de vidro desde os anos de 1950 / Pièces uniques et séries: Objets de céramique et de verre depuis les années 1950; Catálogo / Catalogue.