Dcl Setulo by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Fenitjhara Competition Category.

TšepeFenitjhara· 2026

Dcl Setulo

by Alvaro Wolmer

Client: Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda

Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award Winner in Fenitjhara Category

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The Design

About Dcl Setulo

Dcl ke setulo se entsoeng ka botlalo ka fiberboard ea density e phahameng. Karolo e 'ngoe le e 'ngoe e sehiloe ka CNC router. Setulo se pentiloe ka 'mala o le mong o khanyang, 'me 'mala ofe kapa ofe o ka sebelisoa. Ha se shejoa hole, Dcl e shebahala e batla e le boloko ba khubu ba 'mala o tiileng ho fapana le setulo. Moralo o latela boithuto ba setulo ba moqapi le setsebi sa meaho sa Motaliana Cesare Leonardi, bo ileng ba sala e le mohlala oa lehong 'me ha ho mohla bo kileng ba hlahisoa. Lebitso Dcl le emetse Dopo Cesare Leonardi, ho bolelang Ka mor'a Cesare Leonardi. Setulo se lekana lisentimithara tse 55 ka tse 50 ka tse 70.

The Recognition

About the Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award

Dcl Setulo ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang e fuoang meralo e metle e finyellang litlhoko tsa porofeshenale le tsa indasteri tse lebelletsoeng ho lintho tse hlahisitsoeng tse entsoeng hantle. Bahapi ba Tšepe ba bontša bokhoni bo boholo, bokhethehi bo phahameng, kutloisiso ea litsebi le bokhoni ba boqapi ba baqapi ba bona. Dcl Setulo e lebelletsoe ho ba ntho e hlahisitsoeng e hlomphuoang haholo, e ratoang le e ratehang, e sebetsang le e nang le mehopolo e mecha. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Tšepe oa A' Design Award o kenyelletsa mekhoa e metle ka ho fetesisa ea indasteri mme o na le litšobotsi tsa theknoloji tse nang le bokhoni tse amanang le tsebo le talenta. Ka lebaka la botlalo ba eona, Dcl Setulo e tšoanelehela tlhompho mme e entsoe ho fana ka ntlafatso ea bophelo e thusang ho etsa hore lefatše le be sebaka se molemo.

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