{"id":240,"date":"2017-06-07T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.uix.store\/sober-furniture\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:43:06","slug":"sobre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/en\/sobre\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1791805287368\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p style=\"color: #23232c; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #23232c;\">The Batalha Collection is the result of a meticulous and ongoing search for unique pieces, carefully selected in Portugal and abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 34px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #23232c;\">Our collection brings together antiques, art, and design, spanning centuries and styles to create a fascinating dialogue between the past and the present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Batalha Collection was born in Faro, in the Algarve, out of a long-standing passion for art, antiques and design. The collection is built through an ongoing and meticulous search, in Portugal and abroad, bringing together pieces from different eras, origins and aesthetic styles, selected for their authenticity, quality, history and character.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Antiques, art, design and vintage pieces coexist without rigid boundaries in a deliberately eclectic selection. From historical pieces and furniture centuries old to 20th-century art and design, each object is individually chosen for what makes it unique: its quality, history, provenance, craftsmanship or simply its ability to transform the space it inhabits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ao longo dos anos, pe\u00e7as da Batalha Collection passaram a integrar numerosas casas e projetos de decora\u00e7\u00e3o, bem como importantes cole\u00e7\u00f5es particulares. Entre os seus clientes encontram-se colecionadores reconhecidos, profissionais ligados \u00e0 arte e \u00e0 decora\u00e7\u00e3o e institui\u00e7\u00f5es museol\u00f3gicas, refletindo uma rela\u00e7\u00e3o de confian\u00e7a constru\u00edda com base na qualidade, autenticidade e singularidade da sele\u00e7\u00e3o apresentada. Mais do que comercializar objetos, a Batalha Collection procura encontrar o lugar certo para cada pe\u00e7a. Porque uma pe\u00e7a verdadeiramente especial n\u00e3o termina a sua hist\u00f3ria quando muda de propriet\u00e1rio: inicia um novo cap\u00edtulo, numa casa, numa cole\u00e7\u00e3o, num projeto de interiores ou numa institui\u00e7\u00e3o onde poder\u00e1 continuar a ser vivida, contemplada e preservada.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div data-vc-full-width=\"true\" data-vc-full-width-temp=\"true\" data-vc-full-width-init=\"false\" data-vc-stretch-content=\"true\" class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1791805234302 vc_row-no-padding vc_row-o-equal-height vc_row-o-content-middle vc_row-flex\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-md-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner vc_custom_1791805173412\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 32px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1791805354071\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3><strong>Founder<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hugo Batalha, art and antiques collector, contemporary artist and founder of the Batalha Collection, grew up surrounded by art, antiques and objects with a story to tell, in a family with longstanding ties to this world. This early exposure shaped his eye and nurtured a particular sensitivity to the authenticity, quality, aesthetics and character of each piece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With a degree and postgraduate qualifications in management, he built a career spanning nearly 30 years as a manager in multinational companies and leading Portuguese business groups. This experience gave him a strategic and business-oriented perspective, which he later applied to a world that had always been part of his identity: collecting, art and antiques.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Around seven years ago, he decided to turn this lifelong connection into his own venture and founded the Batalha Collection in Faro, in the Algarve. More than a traditional antiques shop, he created a space where antiques, art, vintage pieces and design coexist in a personal selection shaped by each object's history, quality, uniqueness and ability to make a space its own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As both a collector and an artist, Hugo Batalha brings together knowledge, aesthetic sensibility and experience in the selection of each piece. The Batalha Collection reflects this vision: a meeting point between art, history and design, created for those seeking objects with identity, presence and timeless value.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 32px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_right wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1448\" height=\"1086\" src=\"https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hugo-batalha-collection.jpeg\" class=\"vc_single_image-img attachment-full\" alt=\"\" title=\"hugo-batalha-collection\" srcset=\"https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hugo-batalha-collection.jpeg 1448w, https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hugo-batalha-collection-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hugo-batalha-collection-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hugo-batalha-collection-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hugo-batalha-collection-16x12.jpeg 16w, https:\/\/batalhacollection.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/hugo-batalha-collection-937x703.jpeg 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1448px) 100vw, 1448px\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row-full-width vc_clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Batalha Collection \u00e9 o resultado de uma procura meticulosa e cont\u00ednua por pe\u00e7as \u00fanicas, criteriosamente selecionadas em Portugal e no estrangeiro. 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