Wiseman & Gale Featuring Studio Mike Diaz – Desert Design Week

A conversation with Scott Burdick, Managing Partner at Wiseman & Gale and Mike Diaz of Studio Mike Diaz, a Mexico City–based decorative artist and esthete known for eye-catching furnishings and objects that play with history, symbolism, and scale in the most irresistible way. His work is celebrated for its rustic, whimsical character, bold forms, and generous proportions, often carrying ceremonial themes with an ironic edge. For more than twenty years, he has collaborated with artisans and workshops in Michoacán and Guerrero, alongside a wider network of experts in popular and fine art, shaping pieces that feel tactile, collected, and full of presence. In the design world, Mike Díaz is known for pulling from a wide range of references, leaning into Mexican Baroque and Mexico’s visual history, then translating it into something unmistakably his. He’s not interested in chasing what’s “in” right now. Collectors of his work tend to want furniture with real presence, personality, and staying power.