Daciano da Costa

Daciano received his initial training at the School of Decorative Arts António Arroio, in Lisbon, which he completed with the course of painting at the School of Fine Arts of this city. He collaborated in Frederico George's studio - an architect and also a painter - where he cultivated a growing sensitivity for the systematic and rational processes of the project, not forgetting the poetry contained in the subjective approach to problems.

Once established with his own studio, Daciano decided to abandon painting. With an ethical imperative of social intervention, he indulged in industrial design and interior design - without losing sight of corporate design - in a gradually deeper approach to the universe of architecture, industrial production, and the market.

He has played, at various levels, a reference role for the institutionalization of design in Portugal, as a discipline and as a profession.
On the one hand, Daciano was one of the authors who contributed to create a modern landscape in Portugal, to make the country participate in the international trends of each moment, sharing the conceptual and formal principles of the modern movement.

Daciano approached the main references of his time (Italian, French, Scandinavian, American, Japanese ...) and incorporated them into his work, adapting them to the local resources and conditions, in production both eclectic and with secure copyright, which combines knowledge of the history of the discipline and an intention of contemporaneity.