Jader Almeida

Born in 1981 in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, Jader Almeida gained practical experience in the local furniture industry as a teenager, later studied architecture and urban development, and worked with typical Brazilian materials such as wood, leather and wicker cane at a furniture manufacturer. Contact with masters of Brazilian design, among them Sergio Rodrigues, shaped his approach.

He works as a product designer and architect in his own studio in Florianópolis and has won the iF Design Award and the Good Design Award Chicago. For ClassiCon he designed the Euvira Lounge Chair and Euvira Rocking Chair.