Emblematic Works
2019
Palace of Santa Helena
Study, analysis and pre-assembly of tile panels
Parques de Sintra – Monte da Lua – Palace of Pena
Conservation and restoration of furniture from the Smoking Room
Embassy of the United States of America
Conservation and restoration of movable heritage
Procuradoria-Geral da República – Palmela Palace
Conservation and restoration of stuccoes and decorative painting
Office of the Representative of the Republic in the Azores Region
Conservation and restoration of light fixtures
Metropolitano de Lisboa Headquarters Building – Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo Palace
Conservation and restoration of stucco ceilings
2018
Henrique Mendonça Palace
Conservation and restoration of movable and immovable heritage (phase 1)
This project involved around 40 technicians over 5 months
Estado-Maior General das Forças Armadas – Areeiro Fort
Conservation and restoration of tiles
Procuradoria-Geral da República – Palmela Palace
Conservation and restoration of decorative painting
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Melgaço
Conservation and restoration of paintings on canvas
2017
Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa
Conservation and restoration of Furniture
Conservation and restoration of ceiling paintings in the Atrium
Sabóia Cultural and Recreational Centre – Church of Sabóia
Conservation and restoration of altars and sculpted figures
2016
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa – Convent of São Pedro de Alcântara
Conservation and restoration of tiles
Conservation and restoration of stucco ceilings
2015
Fireplace of the Fourdinois Room, Marquês de Pombal Palace
(Oeiras Municipality)
Conservation and restoration – currently underway
2014
Islamic Pharmacy, Pharmacy Museum – Porto
(Associação Nacional de Farmácias)
Conservation and Restoration
Tile Panel by Leopoldo Battistini (Hospital Curry Cabral)
Conservation and Restoration
2013
Oil painting on wood panel – Our Lady and Child (16th-17th century)
Conservation and Restoration
Oil painting – Father António Vieira, Tribunal de Contas (Lisbon)
Conservation and Restoration
Tile Panel by Júlio Pomar and Alice Jorge(Câmara Municipal de Lisboa)
Conservation and restoration of tile panel located in Av. Infante Santo in Lisbon
2012
Tivoli Theatre, Lisboa
Conservation and restoration of mural painting
Conservation and restoration of stuccoes
Conservation and restoration of gilding
Conservation and restoration of the floor
Café Nicola, Lisbon
Conservation and restoration of 6 oil paintings on canvas
Church of Nossa Senhora da Encarnação, Ameixoeira
Full disassembly of the roof and sacristy structure
Conservation and restoration of the disassembled pieces
Restoration of the structure and final reassembly
Conservation of polychrome wooden credence table
Conservation of polychrome and gilded pedestal
Chapel of São José in Telheiras, Lisbon
Conservation and restoration of mural painting
Conservation and restoration of tiles
Conservation and restoration of the floor
Areeiro Fort, Santo Amaro (Estado-Maior General das Forças Armadas)
Conservation and restoration of tiles
Church of São Pedro Gonçalves Telmo – Nossa Senhora das Ondas, Tavira (in partnership with ERGSILVA)
Complete disassembly of ceilings, main altarpiece and side altarpieces
Conservation and restoration of the mobile art collection
Conservation and restoration of mural paintings
Conservation and restoration of artistic stone elements
Conservation and restoration of tiles
Shrine of Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Rocha, Linda-a-Pastora
Conservation and restoration of ceiling paintings in the Nave and Main Chapel
Rehabilitation of Machinery and Instruments of the former Companhia Aveirense de Moagens (flower milling factory) (Universidade de Aveiro)
Maintenance and restoration of machinery and tools
2011
Terreiro do Paço Fluvial Station (Interpaço ACE – Lisbon)
Conservation and restoration of tiles
Palace/Campo Mártires da Pátria (Promobásica – Gestão Imobiliária, LDA)
Conservation and restoration of 17th and 18th-century tiles
2010
Câmara Municipal de Castro Marim
Conservação e restauro da Igreja do Revelim de Santo António
Conservation and restoration of Manueline charter
Church of São João de Brito (Lisbon)
Conservation and restoration of the image of Nossa Senhora da Conceição
Conde D’Óbidos Palace – Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa
Conservation and restoration of tiles in the D. João de Castro room
Palmela Palace (Procuradoria-Geral da República)
Conservation and restoration of furniture
EPAL
Conservation and restoration of oil paintings in the Great Hall
Colégio Valsassina
Conservation and restoration of mural paintings, tiles and stained-glass windows of the college chapel.
Casa Fernando Pessoa
Rigorous survey of the building’s state of conservation and of the collection of books and publications of Fernando Pessoa’s private library.
Museu de Arte Popular
Conservation and restoration of mural painting
2009
Paço de Maiorca Promoção e Gestão de Equip. Hoteleiros, S.A.
Conservation and restoration of ceilings (paintings on wood), structures, mural paintings and tiles.
Conde d’Óbidos Palace / Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa
Conservation and full restoration of artistic heritage (mural paintings, paintings on wood, stuccoes and tiles) in the dining room
EPAL
Conservation and restoration of the portrait collection (oil paintings on canvas) of the Great Hall at the EPAL main headquarters: mural paintings, gilding of decorative stuccoes on the ceiling and walls
Ateneu Comercial do Porto
Conservation and restoration of the 1st edition of ‘OS LUSÍADAS’ of 1572
Secretaria Geral do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros
Conservation and restoration of the case of a grandfather clock (painting and gilding on wood)
Embassy of the United States of America
Conservation and restoration of various pieces of furniture
Conservation and restoration of oil paintings on canvas
Ginásio Clube Português
Conservation and restoration of flags
Polícia de Segurança Pública
Conservation and restoration of museum pieces
Câmara Municipal de Portimão – Colégio dos Jesuítas
Conservation and restoration of the religious painting collection (oil and tempera on canvas)
Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo
Conservation and restoration of ivory and silver sculpture and boats
Câmara Municipal de Loures
Conservation and restoration of furniture
Governo Civil de Lisboa
Conservation and restoration of oil paintings on canvas
Regional Government of the Azores
Conservation and restoration of furniture
2008
Seteais Palace
The restoration of the estate collection and decorative painting of the Seteais Palace, now the Hotel Tivoli Palácio de Seteais, was a complex undertaking involving 14 trades and around 30 technicians over 10 months.
This project was coordinated by the Conservation and Restoration department in close collaboration with the Masters of the various workshops.
The Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation was responsible for inventory, disassembly, conditioning, transport, storage and conservation and restoration of all the hotel’s mobile heritage.
This collection is composed of around 2000 pieces of various genres – of which 1122 were identified for intervention – including furniture, light fixtures, textiles, easel paintings, prints and porcelain. FRESS also intervened in the rehabilitation and restoration of the mural paintings that cover almost all the halls and rooms of the palace (walls and ceilings).
Hotel Tivoli/Av. da Liberdade
Conservation and restoration of frescoes
Banco Espírito Santo
Conservation and restoration of museum collection/furniture
Galp Energia
Conservation and restoration of furniture
Marquês da Praia Palace (Headquarters of the Socialist Party of Portugal)
Conservation and restoration of paintings on canvas, mural paintings, tiles, light fixtures, wall panelling and wooden shutters
Palmela Palace (Procuradoria-Geral da República)
Conservation and restoration of mural paintings and decorative stuccoes in various rooms, stone elements, staircase, wooden doors and shutters
Companhia de Seguros Fidelidade
Conservation and restoration of mural paintings in diverse rooms in the Caixa Geral de Depósitos building in Calhariz
Banco Espírito Santo
Conservation and restoration of furniture and light fixtures
2007
Palmela Palace – Meeting Room, Pillement-style Room and Chinese Room (Procuradoria-Geral da República – head office)
Objects in the decorative programme for conservation and restoration included stuccoes, mural paintings, paintings on canvas and gilding on stucco.
This intervention included a vocational training and work-experience component aimed at young people studying conservation and restoration at the schools of the Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation (ESAD and IAO), under daily guidance of a technical team with experience in the various areas of intervention.
Marquês da Praia Palace, Largo do Rato, Lisbon
Conservation and restoration of the mural painting of the entrance ceiling, the Birds room ceiling and 19th-century paintings on canvas in the staircase.
Conde D’Óbidos Palace – Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa
Conservation and restoration of the ceiling painting in the Garland room.
Tiles in the sacristy of the Church of São Domingos
Conservation and restoration of eight 18th-century tile panels (around 1,800 tiles) attributed to Manuel dos Santos.
This heritage was subject to an intervention period of almost an entire year due to its poor state of conservation.
FRESS carried out the inventory, removal, study and conservation and restoration of the tiles, which have since been reinstalled in their original setting.
Museu de Ílhavo
Conservation and restoration of a collection of oil paintings on canvas by João Carlos Celestino Gomes, a physician-painter
of some note in the Portuguese artistic scene in the 1940s.
2000
PHAN – Instituto do Património Histórico e Artístico Nacional (Brazil)
Recuperation Project of Tile Heritage – São Salvador: Conservation and restoration of tiles from the Consistory and Cloister of the Convent of the Third Order of São Francisco da Penitência (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)
Minas Gerais State Government
Restoration, modernisation and museological and museographical renovation of the Museu do Aleijadinho, Ouro Preto
1999
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa – Museum
Production of bronze chiselled crowns for the old National Lottery wheel (1860)
Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Restoration of Furniture
Ministério da Justiça, Tribunal da Relação
Restoration of Furniture
Embassy of Portugal in Washington
Production of Embossed Leather Chair Seats
The National Palace of Ajuda
Restoration of Furniture
Ministério da Justiça
Restoration of Mural Paintings in the Caldas da Rainha Courthouse
Grupo Espírito Santo
Restoration of Mural Paintings in the GES headquarters
Ministério da Administração Interna
Instituto de Comunicação Social (Palácio Foz)
Restoration of the Great Hall
Restoration of Mural Paintings
1998
Câmara Municipal de Palmela
Restoration of decorative painting on the ceiling and walls of the Great Hall of the Council Building
Ministério da Justiça, Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa
Restoration of ceilings, walls and floors in chambers, courtrooms and entrance halls.
Instituto São João de Deus
Restoration of a sculpted image
Montepio Geral
Restoration of decorative painting on the ceiling and walls in several rooms of the Labour Court in Santarém
Câmara Municipal de Sesimbra
Restoration of book bindings
Ministério da Justiça, Supremo Tribunal de Justiça
Restoration of ceilings and walls of the Great Hall
Museu Nacional dos coches
Conservation and restoration of the Triumphal ‘Oceans Coach’
Companhia Portuguesa Rádio-Marconi, regional headquarters of Marconi, Funchal
Old Chapel of the Casa do Esmeraldo in Funchal (paintings on wood panels)
1997
Ministério da Defesa Nacional
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Companhia Portuguesa Rádio-Marconi, regional headquarters of Marconi, Funchal
Restoration of the ceiling of the Old Chapel of the Casa do Esmeraldo in Funchal (paintings on wood panels)
Companhia de Seguros Fidelidade
Production of pieces of furniture
Ministério da Justiça, Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa
Restoration of decorative paintings on the ceilings and walls in the library
IPPAR
Restoration of the ceiling (wood panels with decorative painting) of the main chapel of the Church of São Pedro – Marialva
Museu Nacional dos Coches
Conservation and restoration of the Triumphal ‘Oceans Coach’
Construtora Abrantina
Silver foil coating of the tubes supporting the concrete canopy of the Portuguese Pavilion at EXPO-98
IPHAN – Instituto do Património Histórico e Artístico Nacional (Brazil)
Conservation and restoration of the interiors of the church of Convent of Santo António de Igarassu
1996
Museu Conde de Castro Guimarães, Cascais
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Direcção-Geral dos Edifícios e Monumentos Nacionais
Restoration of the ceiling with decorative painting – Burnay Palace
Direcção-Geral dos Registos e Notariado
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Direcção-Geral das Pescas
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Ministério da Justiça, Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1995
Associação Nacional de Farmácias – Museu de Farmácia
Restoration of pieces of furniture
EPAL
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Queluz National Palace
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
The National Palace of Ajuda
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
European Commission – Lisbon headquarters
Restoration of decorative paintings and ‘boiseries’
Casas de Fronteira e Alorna Foundation
Restoration of tiles in the Fronteira Palace as part of a training programme
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Museu Nacional do Traje
Restoration of two Berlin carriages to appear in the exhibition ‘Portugal-England the Alliance Revisited’, held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Museum
Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Presidential Palace
Restoration of mural paintings and various pieces of furniture
1994
Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts – FRESS
Restoration of the entire collection (with the exception of chandeliers, clocks and paintings on canvas), including wall paintings, tiles, upholstery, curtains and door cloths of the Museum during broader conservation and restoration work on the building (1992-1994).
CN – Comunicações Nacionais
Restoration of the marquetry floors in some rooms
1992
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1991
São Bento Palace (Parliament of Portugal)
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Church of São Francisco, Évora
Restoration of the 18th-century altarpiece in gilded woodcarving to feature in the exhibition Triumph of the Baroque – Europalia
Museu Nacional Machado de Castro
Restoration of the 17th-century altarpiece in gilded woodcarving to feature in the exhibition Triumph of the Baroque – Europalia
1990
Câmara Municipal de Cascais
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Church of São Francisco, Porto
Restoration of two altarpieces in gilded wood carving, in collaboration with Instituto José de Figueiredo
1989
Fundação da Casa de Bragança, Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1988
Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP
Restoration of mural paintings
Estado Maior do Exército
Restoration of mural paintings
1987
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Restoration of book bindings, documents (paper and parchment) and various pieces of furniture
Ministério da Justiça, Palmela Palace, Lisbon
Restoration of murals, ceilings and all gilded decorative elements
1986
Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Alvito
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1984
Parochial Church of Póvoa de Santa Iria
Restoration of the main altarpiece
Câmara Municipal de Salvaterra de Magos
Restoration of mural paintings in the main church
Câmara Municipal do Porto
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1983
Banco Pinto & Sotto Mayor
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Palace of Santa Clara do Lumiar, Lisbon
Restoration of mural and ceiling paintings
Ecomar
Restoration of mural and ceiling paintings in Cinema Tivoli, Lisbon
Governo Civil de Santarém
Restoration of mural paintings
1982
Banco Espírito Santo
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Companhia de Seguros Tranquilidade
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Instituto José de Figueiredo
Collaboration in the restoration of various pieces of furniture
Embassy of the United States of America
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Companhia de Seguros Império
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Banco Nacional Ultramarino
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1981
Regional Government of the Azores, Terceira Island (Angra do Heroísmo) and São Jorge Island
Restoration of wood carvings and furniture in various churches, museums and other buildings damaged in the earthquake of 1 January 1980
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Restoration of mural paintings in the headquarters building in Largo do Calhariz
Banco Português do Atlântico
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1980
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
Casa Museu Anastácio Gonçalves
Restoration of various pieces of furniture
1979
Ministério da Justiça, Palmela Palace, Lisbon
Restoration of murals, ceilings and all gilded decorative elements
1978
Alcobaça Monastery
Restoration of large pieces of furniture and gilded woodcarving
Church of Santa Maria de Cós
Restoration of the 17th-century choir-stalls
1964
Palace of Versailles
Reconstitution of the library of Madame du Barry in the ‘petits appartements’ following a fire