‘Just decorative?’ Júlio Pomar and the integration of the arts’ was an exhibition commissioned by Catarina Rosendo and presents a previously unexplored facet of the artist’s work relating to the decorative arts, collaborations with industry and participation in architectural projects, aiming to explore the utilitarian dimension of art, distributing it throughout people’s everyday lives. As well as including a selection of Júlio Pomar’s best-known tapestries, prints and tiles, the exhibition particularly emphasises the period extending from the mid-1940s to the second half of the 1950s, when the artist pursued several ceramics and glass projects at the Fábrica Cerâmica Bombarrelense Limitada, Estúdio Secla (Caldas da Rainha) and the Fábrica Irmãos Stephens (Marinha Grande), producing unique items of excellent visual quality intended for domestic use, such as plates, dishes and jars, which were rarely or never displayed in public.