Sam Baron

Born in France, Sam Baron is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Saint Etienne and has a post-diploma from the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris. By anchoring his creations in functional and artistic research, without omitting cultural and historical narratives, Sam Baron positions his gaze in our everyday life and its contemporaneity through re-readings and reinterpretations of artisanal or industrial know-how. He works as a designer for brands such as Louis Vuitton, La Redoute, Vista Alegre, or Hennessy and was for ten years the creative director of the design department of Fabrica, the international communication research center based in Italy. In 2009 he received the Grand Prize for the creation of the city of Paris in the confirmed designer section and was named in 2010 by Philipe Starck as one of the most important designers of the decade. Sam baron divides his time between Portugal and France.