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

FerroMobiliário· 2026

Dcl Cadeira

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Mobiliário Category

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The Design

About Dcl Cadeira

Dcl é uma cadeira feita inteiramente de painel de fibra de alta densidade. Cada peça é cortada com uma fresadora CNC. A cadeira é pintada em uma cor sólida e vibrante, sendo possível aplicar qualquer cor. Vista à distância, Dcl parece quase um bloco cúbico de cor sólida, e não uma cadeira. O design segue um estudo de cadeira do arquiteto e designer italiano Cesare Leonardi, que permaneceu como um modelo em madeira e nunca foi produzido. O nome Dcl significa Dopo Cesare Leonardi, ou seja, Depois de Cesare Leonardi. A cadeira mede 55 por 50 por 70 centímetros.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Dcl Cadeira conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que Dcl Cadeira seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, Dcl Cadeira merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar melhor.

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