Santiago started his professional life by creating an industrial refrigeration company. There he met a master woodworker whose workshop was next to his and would prove to be an inspiration for Santiago. “Woodworking started as a hobby,” he says. “I had a friend who worked wood and had a lathe. I bought it from him and started doing small things.” In 2000, he left his company and opened his own workshop. His works are made from different types of wood, many of them native to his region of Spain, especially olive wood, which to Santiago evokes the area and its customs. “I started to make these large pieces on the lathe in 2009 and thought that it could be interesting as there was no one else making this type of work,” he says.
Santiago Valverde López