Dcl Silla by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Mobiliario Competition Category.

HierroMobiliario· 2026

Dcl Silla

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Mobiliario Category

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The Design

About Dcl Silla

Dcl es una silla fabricada enteramente en tablero de fibras de alta densidad. Cada pieza se corta con una fresadora CNC. La silla está pintada en un color liso y vivo, y puede aplicarse cualquier color. Vista desde lejos, Dcl parece casi un bloque cúbico de color sólido más que una silla. El diseño se inspira en un estudio de silla del arquitecto y diseñador italiano Cesare Leonardi, que quedó como maqueta de madera y nunca llegó a producirse. El nombre Dcl significa Dopo Cesare Leonardi, es decir, Después de Cesare Leonardi. La silla mide 55 por 50 por 70 centímetros.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Dcl Silla ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que Dcl Silla sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. Dcl Silla es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

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