Escoural-O-Novo is the third book of the Lonely Planet triptych, in which Dutch artist Susan Kooi travels to Italy, Portugal, and Japan to work with various traditions and artists in the world of ceramic crafts. This last part of the triptych in which Kooi recontextualises and poetically reconstructs ceramic artefacts, explores the material as a time machine. This publication also functions as an alternative travel book for the Montomor-O-Novo region in Portugal, which has a long tradition in