David Amado grew up in haute couture workshops and backstage at fashion shows, and took that standard for detail with him when he became a producer. In 2015 he co-founded La Maison Noire with three partners from directing, post-production and strategic planning, on an idea that still drives the house: every craft of image-making under one roof, from concept to final grade. Now managing director, he works with luxury and beauty houses including Dior, Chanel, Hermès and La Prairie, and treats production as a craft in which new tools, serve human skill and creativity. Based in Paris, in a seventeenth-century house in the Marais.