Makers

The coppersmith Nuno Palma works enveloped in the shine of copper and brass, seated on his bench in the Oficina dos Caldeireiros

With a Master's in Fine Arts from ESAD.CR and training at CENCAL's ceramics lab, Andreia Pinho set up her workshop in Leiria, a ceramics capital, in 2021. There, she took refuge from humankind to explore its strangest and most grotesque side through wild clay.

Luca D’Ortenzi is an Italian wood turner and sculptor who founded Projecto Vago after the 2022 fires in Serra da Estrela, where he lives and works.

Alice Aranha is the artistic name of Alice Albergaria Borges, a crochet jeweller who discovered her passion for textures as...

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.

Born in Moldova in 1992, Ana Sincu grew up tending geese by the Prut River, until her family moved to...

Curiosity, mischievousness and raw talent shaped Porfírio Mendes into the folk  cork sculpture he is today, without ever stepping foot in a formal art school.

Helena's journey with bulrush began with master craftsman Manuel Ferreira, from Santarém.

After training his hands to carve didgeridoos during his teenage years, Diogo Valente enrolled at university to study dental prosthetics, where, in addition to manual dexterity, he also trained his patience.

Jorge Lima and his wife Esmeralda wake up every day to views of the sunny hills of São Marcos da Serra, where they care for 100 hectares of wild medronho trees with a stunning landscape overlooking the Odelouca river.

This tradition is kept alive by the hands of the sole current producer of Wine of the Dead, Nuno Pereira. His family has produced this wine for as long as anyone can remember, with the ancestral house, Casa Sousa, dating back to 1792, predating the French invasions.