Dcl Isihlalo by Alvaro Wolmer is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Umklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award in Ukudizayina Ifenisha Competition Category.
InsimbiIfenisha· 2026
Dcl Isihlalo
Client: Álvaro Wolmer Movelaria Fina Ltda
Umklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award Winner in Ifenisha Category
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The Design
About Dcl Isihlalo
I-Dcl yisihlalo esenziwe ngokuphelele nge-fiberboard enokuqina okuphezulu (high density fiberboard). Yonke ingxenye isikwa ngomshini we-CNC router. Isihlalo sipendwe ngombala owodwa okhanyayo, futhi kungasetshenziswa noma yimuphi umbala. Uma sibukwa ukude, i-Dcl ibukeka cishe njengebhulokisi elisamqhu elinombala owodwa kunokuba isihlalo. Umklamo ulandela ucwaningo lwesihlalo olwenziwa ngumakhi nomklami wase-Italy uCesare Leonardi, olwahlala luyimodeli yokhuni futhi alukaze lukhiqizwe. Igama elithi Dcl limele u-Dopo Cesare Leonardi, okusho ukuthi Ngemva kukaCesare Leonardi. Isihlalo sinesilinganiso esingamasentimitha angama-55 ngamasentimitha angama-50 ngamasentimitha angama-70.
The Recognition
About the Umklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award
Dcl Isihlalo iwinile uMklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award, ukwaziswa okuhloniphekile okunikezwa imiklamo emihle ehlangabezana nezidingo zobungcweti nezemboni ezilindelekile ezimpahleni ezihlelwe kahle. Abawinile beNsimbi babonisa ikhono elikhulu, ubungcweti obuphezulu, ukuqonda kochwepheshe namandla okudala abadali babo. Dcl Isihlalo ilindeleke ukuba ibe yinto exatshwa kakhulu, edunyiswayo nethandwayo esebenzayo nenezinto ezintsha. Lo mklamo owinile uMklomelo Wensimbi we-A' Design Award uhlanganisa izindlela ezinhle kakhulu zemboni futhi unezimfanelo zobuchwepheshe ezifanelekile ezihlanganiswe nolwazi nethalente. Dcl Isihlalo iyahlonishwa ngenxa yokucophelela kwayo futhi ihlelelwe ukulethela izinguquko zomgangatho wempilo ezisiza ukwenza umhlaba ube yindawo engcono.
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
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