Press Release
Alvaro Wolmer Receives the A' Design Award for Dcl Chair in Furniture Design
Alvaro Wolmer recognized for furniture design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Furniture Design category for Dcl Chair by Alvaro Wolmer, designed for Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the A' Design Award
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Dcl Chair
Dcl is a chair made entirely of high density fiberboard. Every part is cut with a CNC router. The chair is painted in a bright solid color, and any color can be applied. Seen from a distance, Dcl looks almost like a cubic block of solid color rather than a chair. The design follows a chair study by the Italian architect and designer Cesare Leonardi, which remained a wooden model and was never produced. The name Dcl stands for Dopo Cesare Leonardi, meaning After Cesare Leonardi. The chair measures 55 by 50 by 70 centimeters.
About Alvaro Wolmer
Alvaro Wolmer is a conceptual artist and designer. He runs a woodworking shop since 1985 where he makes his own creations and the works of other contemporary artists, architects and designers from Brazil and abroad - Iran do Espirito Santo, Nelson Leirner, Regina Silveira, Guto Lacaz, Raphaël Zarka, Liliana Porter, Marcio Kogan and Isay Weinfeld, among others.
Award Record
Alvaro Wolmer is a winner of 4 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2021 - 2022 and the 2025 - 2026 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Furniture Design Award
The A' Furniture Design Award is an international furniture competition recognizing good furniture designs by best furniture designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to furniture designers, product designers, industrial design studios and furniture brands from all countries. Typical entries include chairs, tables, sofas, beds, cabinets and shelves. The awarded furniture designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/furniture
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/178636
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/178636
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!178636
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/327634
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.alvarowolmer.com.br
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Dcl Chair
- Function
- Chair
- Category
- Furniture Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Furniture & Home
- Colors
- Brown, Maroon, Sienna, Light Gray and Silver
- Images
- 4
- Client
- Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Alvaro Wolmer
- Country
- Brazil
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #178636
Credits
- Team
- Álvaro Wolmer
- Image Credits
- All photos were made by Ding Musa in October 2025
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It's a chair made entirely of HDF and painted with a bright solid color - any color - and looks like, when spotted, almost not a chair but a sort of a cubic block of solid massive color.
- Inspiration
- My inspiration was a chair study made by Cesare Leonardi, an Italian architect and designer. Leonardi's chair was nothing more than a wooden model and was not developed nor produced.
- Research
- I simply found in the internet a photo of one interesting study of chair made by the Italian architect and designer Cesare Leonardi. Since Leonardi's chair was not developed nor produced, I thought I could "devevelop it, as I was a Leonardi's team member, and started make a model of of it, changing material, changing form and proportions and making it in a more logic way, seaching for a better proportion and confort for a chair of plain HDF (Leonardi's chair was made of solid wood). The result: my chair is very basic, more logic than Leonardi's; my chair is a concept chair. DCL means Dopo Cesare Leonardi (After Cesare Leonardi).
- Challenge
- In this particular case, there was not "a hardest part of design", which is very rare in any of my designs.
- Realization and Technology
- HDF cut in a CNC router.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2025 in São Paulo and finished in October 2025.
- Keywords
- chair, concept chair, contemporary chair, basic chair, colorful chair
