Álvaro was born in 1995, and grew up in a town near the city of Madrid. He has always been dedicated to drawing and painting, and he trained in the workshops of the “Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid” and with the help of Darío Basso, an internationally recognized Galician painter with whom he worked as an assistant for two years. In 2016 he began his studies in industrial design at the “Instituto Europeo di design IED Madrid” and developed his most technical and rigorous facet as a creative one. After enrolling in 2020, he began to work on furniture projects on his own and to train as a craftsman to produce his designs.
*(Ball) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
2021
This ball represents the first piece of an experimentation project with new materials. PVC vinyl flooring is a material normally used to cover large surfaces of floors such as hospitals, schools, trains or buses and has the ideal characteristics to work it as if it were leather. I propose to see this material as “the new leather” doing the ecological work of giving a second life to the large amount of leftover scraps that are impossible to recycle.
*(Balling) 2020 Photography by Ana Muñoz
*(Balling) 2020 Photography by Ana Muñoz
*(Process) 2020 Photography by Ana Muñoz
*(Model1) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
2021
These small models made of fabric and memory foam show a way to obtain complex three-dimensional shapes without the need for pattern making. Compressing the foam with seams results in pneumatic self-forming that is dependent on the design shapes. Depending on the type of curve, the distances and the symmetries between lines, the foam reacts in different ways.
– Research project developed at IED REC Madrid.
*(Model1) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Model2) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Model2) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Model3) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Model3) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Model4) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Model4, 5) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Model4) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Models) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Mallet) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
2020
What is a cylinder? What is a spiral? The most original answers to these questions give rise to objects like this, in which the forms are not designed, but are obtained naturally through gestures. Could it be said that a spiral is the conclusion of winding a line? That a cylinder is the conclusion of winding a plane? I think that although the cylinder is not perfect, it is good for hitting things. This object is an update of the classic “rawhide mallet”, and is a compostable tool made of animal glue, sawdust, natural pigments and oak wood.
– Final degree project with honorable mention IED Madrid 2020
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*(Head mallet) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Mallet) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Mallet) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Head mallet) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Still life) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Process) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Process) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Process) 2020 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Stool) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
2020
Inspired by Kaare Klint’s “Propeler stool”, this classic scissor stool folds completely into a “flat” that is easy to store and transport. It is symmetrical from the front and asymmetrical from the profile. This particularity always occurs in this type of scissor seat, and it is because the legs must be assembled one on top of the other so that both can articulate. But the peculiarity of this particular stool is that its seat seen from above is slightly inclined so that the seat fabric reaches the same point on both sides, thus deceiving the eye by making it appear that there is no asymmetry. The seat is not rectangular, it is rhomboid. It could be said that the seat is asymmetrical precisely so as not to appear so.
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*(Stool, folding) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(Stool, folded) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(Stool, semi-folded) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(Detail) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(CH1) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
2020
Inspired by the “Mogensen” leather seats, this pair of chairs is the product of a stage of
experimentation with reused wood and discarded scraps of PVC flooring.
These sheets are usually installed on industrial floors, trains, buses, schools, gyms and hospitals.
They are slightly elastic and are designed to absorb impacts.
Its properties are very similar to those of leather in elasticity and flexibility, making it a good
material for traction seats.
This type of synthetic flooring is highly polluting for the environment, and unfortunately, being so
cheap, large quantities are wasted. This project seeks to provide outlets for all that waste
material.
*(CH1) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(CH1) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(CH2) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(CH2) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(CH2) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(CH1 detail) 2020 Photography by Irene Manresa
*(Sketch) 2020
*(Half ball) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
2021
There are infinite forms of pattern to close waiting, this experiment proposes a variation of the “bazooka ball” developed from the octahedron as a primitive polyhedron to compose a functional ball with eight panels. The pink leather and the absence of graphics suggest a new concept of the ball as a design piece.
*(Oktaball) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Oktaball) 2021 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Chair) 2021 Render by Álvaro Muñoz
2021
Paul Kjaerholm was my inspiration to design this chair, as were the twisted iron enclosures, railings and planters that adorn rural settings in Spain. Pletor or “pletina torsionada is the name of this aluminum and wood chair that uses torsion not so much for decoration but rather for structural benefit.
*(Chair) 2021 Render by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Detail) 2021 Render by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Lamp) 2019 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
2019
For hundreds of years, the Block printing technique has been the artisanal stamping method par excellence in India. It is a method of stamping by stamps that is used to stamp all kinds of complex drawings on fabrics, using the module as a key element to design motifs that are repeated infinitely. Molinillo is a geometric module that develops horizontally on this luminaire screen as a border, generating a contrast between the industrial and the artisanal.
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*(Lamp) 2019 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Lamp) 2019 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*(Stool) 2019 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
*Stampation trial
*Design process
*Design process
*Design process
*Design process
*Design process
*Design process
*(Sculpture) 2014 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz
2014
This metal sculpture replaces the classic hunter’s trophy. It is composed of 3 flat drawings welded at different angles to generate the illusion of three-dimensionality. It is made of iron rod and its dimensions are 80 x 75 x 50 cm.
*(Sculpture) 2014 Photography by Álvaro Muñoz