Bengalas Walking Sticks by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Limited Edition and Custom Design Competition Category.
SilverLimited Edition· 2022
Bengalas Walking Sticks
Client: Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda.
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Limited Edition Category
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About Bengalas Walking Sticks
Bengalas is a collection of walking sticks made of red or white oak. Handles are offered in a C shape or a T shape. Walking sticks for men have a diameter of 25 mm, while walking sticks for women are slimmer, with a diameter of 22 mm. The length is made to order. The oak is FSC certified. All handles are reinforced with jacaranda paulista, a Brazilian native wood. The surfaces are finished with tung oil. The replaceable tips are made of aluminum and laminated rubber for a stable contact with the ground.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Bengalas Walking Sticks is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Bengalas Walking Sticks is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Bengalas Walking Sticks is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Fine Furniture Design and Custom Woodworking
We create bespoke furniture and refined wooden objects with nearly four decades of craftsmanship expertise. Our São Paulo atelier specializes in custom pieces for discerning clients, from architectural commissions to personal collections. Each creation combines traditional techniques with contemporary design excellence.
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- Unique Properties
- The walking sticks are made to perfection of best quality red or white oak. Handles can have a C shape or a T shape. Walking sticks for men have a diameter of 25 mm; walking sticks for women are a little slimmer: 22 mm of diameter. The oak is FSC certified. All the handles of our walking sticks are reinforced with jacaranda paulista (Machaerium villosum), a Brazilian native wood. The walking sticks are finished, basically, with tung oil. The replaceable tips are made of aluminum and laminated rubber.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Walking sticks for men have a diameter of 25 mm; walking sticks for women are a little slimmer: 22 mm of diameter. The oak is FSC certified. The length is custom made. MDF Package: 105 cm long x 20 cm wide x 3.6 cm thick.
- Tags
- walking stick, cane, luxury walking stick, wooden walking stick, fine walking stick, fine cane, de luxe walking stick, de luxe cane
- Production Technology
- The walking sticks are produced by fine artisans with regular woodworking machines and techniques, plus a CNC router to shape them and the MDF package. The replaceable tips are made of aluminum and laminated rubber. The aluminum parts are produced in a CNC lathe and anodized in black. The scientific names of the two woods are laser engraved. The walking sticks are finished with tung oil. The oak is FSC certified.
- Design Challenge
- Very few things are older in the history of humankind than a walking stick. At the present time, it was a real challenge to create something just a little better or slightly different from many many walking sticks. Having said that, I think I have created a walking stick that gathers several qualities: beauty, warmth, discretion, lightness, durability, and good design.
- Research
- I basically researched on the Internet. I saw thousands of walking sticks/canes before start making my own designs. From the very beginning, I wanted to have a walking stick: (1) of solid wood, (2) pleasant to touch, (3) with a decent tip (4) durable. The walking sticks are made of laminated oak and jacaranda paulista. The purpose: no joins, stability, and strength. The walking sticks have non slippery, replaceable and elegant tips.
- Inspiration
- I have been making fine furniture for almost 4 decades. Some old clients became my friends, and every now and then asked me to make a walking stick. I made one, two, three, and realized that there is not an actual fine walking stick in the market, in Brazil or abroad. That was my inspiration. The C handle is a classic. The T handle is my design.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Sao Paulo in January 2016 and ended in São Paulo in January 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Oak wood is a very special material for the walking sticks: it is strong, beautiful, warm in the winter, fresh in the summer. I have heard from many buyers: "I love my walking stick. When I am not walking with her, I have her on my lap” or “I love to have my walking stick in my hands, even when I am not using it”.
- Patents
- The design was registred in IAB - Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil.
- Team Members
- Designer: Alvaro Wolmer
Master Woodworker: Daniel Lavaroni
Master Woodworker: José de Deus Rocha - Image Credits
- All photos were taken by Ding Musa.
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