Samuel Reis

After graduating in Industrial Design from ESAD, in Caldas da Rainha - a city with a strong ceramic tradition - Samuel Reis stood out as a product designer, bringing new interpretations to ancestral crafts and exploring glass, wood, and ceramics through contemporary languages.

In glass, he works side by side with a team of master glassmakers, starting only with fire, sand, and air, in cast iron, graphite, or ceramic clay molds. Then, he decided to experiment. He discovered that hollowed wood logs, already without their natural core (cerne), could be cut and transformed into organic molds that would give unexpected shapes to the glass. He named the project Cerne.

From flasks to glasses, from jugs to lamps, his technique is free so that the materials retain life in the final forms - and his precision ensures functionality and beauty. Although his work travels the world - it was featured in the Homo Faber exhibition in Venice and selected by the Michelangelo Foundation for Excellence in Craftsmanship - Samuel chooses to live and work in Caldas, integrated into an expanding artistic community.