Sam Baron

Sam Baron is a French designer with a degree in design from the Fine Arts School of Saint-Etienne and a post-graduate degree from the National Decorative Arts School in Paris. He reinterprets traditional methods of construction, raising questions about the utility of today’s material production, and moves between products, exhibition and interior design in cross-over works that mix art and design.

An independent designer and creative consultant, he has worked for Dior Maison, La Redoute, Vista Alegre and Diptyque, and spent a decade as design director consultant at Fabrica, the Italian communication research centre. In 2009 he received the Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris and in 2010 Philippe Starck named him one of the ten designers of the next decade; he now lives between Portugal and France.