Dcl Noho by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Lako Hale Competition Category.

HaoLako Hale· 2026

Dcl Noho

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Lako Hale Category

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The Design

About Dcl Noho

He noho ʻo Dcl i hana ʻia me ka papa fiber paʻa kiʻekiʻe (high density fiberboard) wale nō. ʻOki ʻia kēlā me kēia ʻāpana me ka mīkini CNC router. Pena ʻia ka noho i ka waihoʻoluʻu ʻālohilohi hoʻokahi, a hiki ke hoʻohana ʻia kekahi waihoʻoluʻu ʻē aʻe. Ke nānā ʻia mai kahi mamao, ua like ʻo Dcl me he poloka pahu paʻa o ka waihoʻoluʻu hoʻokahi ma mua o ka noho. Hahai ka hoʻolālā i kahi noiʻi noho a ke kanaka kālai hale a mea hoʻolālā Italia ʻo Cesare Leonardi, i waiho ʻia ma ke ʻano he kumu hoʻohālike lāʻau a ʻaʻole i hana ʻia. ʻO ka inoa ʻo Dcl, ʻo ia ka pōkole no Dopo Cesare Leonardi, ʻo ia hoʻi, Ma hope o Cesare Leonardi. ʻO ke ana o ka noho he 55 ma ka 50 ma ka 70 kenimika.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Dcl Noho i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Dcl Noho he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Dcl Noho no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

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