Born in Romania in 1986, Mircea Anghel is a self-taught designer based in Portugal and the founder of Cabana Studio.

From a young age, growing up in Bucharest, he displayed a particular interest in mathematics and always found pleasure in problem-solving. The son of a diplomat, Anghel moved to Lisbon in 2001, where he studied economics at the University of Lisbon, before embarking on a career in finance. 

During those years, he developed a keen interest in woodworking, to which he devoted himself while not at work. His passion soon turned into a full-time occupation, and after resigning from his position at a hedge fund, he established his own design practice, Cabana Studio, in 2015. 

In 2019, in need of space for his larger creations, he moved his studio in the Portuguese capital to a 1,500-square-meter sawmill, located in Herdade da Barrosinha, a rural estate in Alcácer do Sal.

The team is composed of 13 members of various origins including Romania, Portugal, Senegal, France, Italy and Brazil.

As a diverse group of individuals — not solely in nationality — but also in terms of age, personality, and above all skill sets are a mix of professions of finance, saw milling, architecture, marine biology and cooking whom all act working in synchrony.

The Team is to its very core a port for light minded people. Each individual is an essential tool we understand as fundamental to enriching creative opportunity and adventure that the studio embarks on daily.

We are all curiously hungry and driven to discover new artistic processes — our work is therefore dynamic, without boundaries, and in a constant state of manifestation.