After a few years of working in architecture, Diogo Amaro spent two years learning with the master cabinetmakers from FRESS, absorbing all the knowledge they had to transmit. It was a really enriching time, where he was able to experiment and explore the relation between design and making, assuming it as an essencial period of research and experimentation. He decided to study the work of Frank Lloyd Wright in depth, while exploring the techniques that were being taught by his masters, specially with the inlay work, and intricate joinery.
The result of this experimentation is the Chicago series, a collection of seven original pieces, that revisits the imaginary of Chicago’s architecture at the turn of the 20th century, in particular the one of Frank Lloyd Wright, exploring the japanese influence in his work.
In 2022, Diogo Amaro participated in the Homo Faber Event, in Venice, as a young ambassador, and does a workshop with the Japanese master carpenter, Takami Kawai, and the Japanese designer Wataru Kumanu, at the Domaine de Boisbuchet, in France. In the same period, he moves from Lisbon to Porto, leaving his first workshop in the Alfama neighbourhood, to establish his new work space at an old barrel makers workshop, in a traditional barrel makers area, where he designs and make bespoke furniture pieces.
In 2023, he was invited to integrate the Homo Faber Guide, curated by the Michelangelo Foundation.
Exhibition at Santa Clara 1728 - Silent Living
