Portuguese designer born in Lisbon (1983), graduated from ESAD-CR in 2006, achieved his MA in Product Design at ECAL, Lausanne, in 2013. Co-funds FROM Industrial Design in 2014, presenting their first collection during the Salone Satellite 2014, where they won the 1st prize with “Volta” Lamp. He has since then worked for a variety of different brands and institutions such as Cassina (IT), USM (CH), Leucos (IT), Baccarat (FR) AICEP (PT) or Vista Alegre (PT). Since 2015 he has taken over the creative direction of UTIL.

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