Vista Alegre
Vista Alegre é uma marca portuguesa de mobiliário e decoração, fundada em 1824 em Ílhavo, em Alcobaça.
Sobre Vista Alegre
Vista Alegre was founded in 1824 by José Ferreira Pinto Basto, beside the Ria de Aveiro, in Ílhavo, and is the oldest porcelain factory on the Iberian Peninsula. The name comes from the Vista Alegre estate and chapel, which the founder had bought eight years earlier. In 1832, after a visit by his son Augusto to the French factory at Sèvres, deposits of kaolin were discovered north of Ílhavo — the raw material that had been missing to produce quality porcelain in the country. Two centuries on, the house makes porcelain in Ílhavo and crystal in Alcobaça, the latter inherited from the merger with Atlantis in 2001. Since 2009 it has been part of Grupo Visabeira. The range runs from tableware and crystal to glassware, cutlery, lighting, textiles, furniture and decorative pieces, with a line of its own for the hotel trade. The design is done with invited artists and designers: Joana Vasconcelos, Eduardo Nery and Karim Rashid have signed collections, and there is furniture developed with Pininfarina. The pieces appear at official receptions of the Presidência da República and in European royal households. The factory complex at Ílhavo remains open to visitors and is today a museum as well, with the baroque chapel, the workers' housing built for the factory hands and the house that was home to seven generations of the founding family.
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