Dcl Cadira by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award de Ferro in Disseny de Mobiliari Competition Category.

FerroMobiliari· 2026

Dcl Cadira

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Mobiliari Category

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The Design

About Dcl Cadira

Dcl és una cadira feta íntegrament de tauler de fibra d'alta densitat. Cada peça es talla amb una fresadora CNC. La cadira està pintada en un color sòlid i brillant, i s'hi pot aplicar qualsevol color. Vista des de la distància, Dcl sembla gairebé un bloc cúbic de color sòlid més que no pas una cadira. El disseny segueix un estudi de cadira de l'arquitecte i dissenyador italià Cesare Leonardi, que va quedar en una maqueta de fusta i mai no es va produir. El nom Dcl significa Dopo Cesare Leonardi, és a dir, Després de Cesare Leonardi. La cadira mesura 55 per 50 per 70 centímetres.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Dcl Cadira és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro, un reconeixement prestigiós concedit a bons dissenys que compleixen els requisits professionals i industrials esperats de creacions ben dissenyades. Els guanyadors de Ferro demostren una gran habilitat, una alta especialització, una comprensió experta i la capacitat creativa dels seus creadors. Es preveu que Dcl Cadira sigui una creació molt apreciada, admirada i estimada que és pràctica i innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro integra les millors pràctiques del sector i té característiques tècniques competents lligades al coneixement i al talent. Dcl Cadira és respectat per la seva minuciositat i està pensat per oferir millores en la qualitat de vida que ajuden a fer del món un lloc millor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: 55 x 50 x 70 cm
Tags: chair, concept chair, contemporary chair, basic chair, colorful chair
Production Technology: HDF cut in a CNC router.
Design Challenge: In this particular case, there was not "a hardest part of design", which is very rare in any of my designs.
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).
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.
Project Duration: The project started in May 2025 in São Paulo and finished in October 2025.
Operation Flow: It's a chair.
Patents: The design was registered at IAB (Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil)
Team Members: Álvaro Wolmer
Image Credits: All photos were made by Ding Musa in October 2025