Daniel
Santamaria
Three decades shaping floral design through contrast — asymmetry, tone, texture, proportion — taught across more than thirty countries.
A practice built
on contrast.
My designs grow from a personal path shaped by learning, travel, and unlikely influences. Architecture, nature, and symbolism inform every composition — finding the idea matters as much as making it.
Contrast is my constant: asymmetry, tone, texture, and proportion held in tension. Each piece builds its own harmony, and its own emotion.
Mis diseños nacen de un recorrido personal hecho de aprendizaje, viajes e influencias inesperadas. La arquitectura, la naturaleza y el simbolismo dan forma a cada composición: encontrar la idea importa tanto como crearla.
El contraste es mi constancia: asimetría, tono, textura y proporción en tensión. Cada pieza construye su propia armonía, su propia emoción.
Design is beauty,
and beauty is harmony.
El diseño es belleza, y la belleza es armonía.
— Daniel Santamaria
Knowledge, lived
and felt.
I teach with my hands as much as my voice. Method matters, but a class only becomes real once it turns into feeling — practiced, repeated, refined through every mistake.
Each session is an exchange, not a lecture: craft meets emotion, and technique becomes personal. I want everyone who works with me to leave not only more skilled, but more themselves.
Enseño con las manos tanto como con la voz. El método importa, pero una clase solo se vuelve real cuando se convierte en sensación — practicada, repetida, afinada en cada error.
Cada sesión es un intercambio, no una lección: el oficio se encuentra con la emoción, y la técnica se vuelve personal.
Career.
From first apprenticeship to school director — three decades across Barcelona, Germany, and the world.
Before the panel.
Four gold and silver medals on the national and European circuit, before moving to the other side of the table as a juror.
Competitions.
Head and panel juror for the leading international floral art competitions since 2005.
Structure, volume, time.
Large-format botanical structure, built in dried and fresh material to study volume, tension, and time.Estructura botánica de gran formato, construida en material seco y fresco para estudiar volumen, tensión y tiempo.
New material, same tension.
Recent studio work, held to the same discipline of volume and tension — structural cascades, woven form, seasonal palette.Trabajo reciente de estudio, con la misma disciplina de volumen y tensión — cascadas estructurales, forma tejida, paleta estacional.
