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arturo alvarez has made a step forward and launched its first floor lamp of led technology with a great success and a warm public reception … [+]

We have reached such a level of industrialization, globalization, where everything is similar,   that we are losing our objectivity and perspective on author products, hand -made products, whose value lies on the fact that even when we take the same reference, no two products are the same.

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With the title “The volume of light” we will travel to the more intimate concepts from which the designer Árturo Álvarez creates. During his entire career, he has played with light by sifting, catching, diffusing and colouring it. The curvaceous, generous, wide and sometimes styled shapes, always remind us of a woman, of the feminine and also of the most exuberant nature, themes that impregnate his work and are always recurrent. … [+]

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What do you sell?, spoiled handmade items.

Which techniques do you use?, We revalue, reinterpret and reinvent old craftsmanship and we bring it to the present in order the  humankind to remember its roots. … [+]

A group of bloggers from USA, one of the most influential in design in this moment, has been visiting Barcelona to meet design Spanish companies, arturo alvarez among them. … [+]

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Shio and Uxi have already become a symbol of a new era for the company arturo alvarez, a time in which sustainable design set the trend to follow, when the search of environmental care with the hope of maintaining a clean and healthy planet for everyone is a thrill.  … [+]

arturo alvarez earmarks 0.7% of sales of his new collections UXI and SHIO, made of birch wood from managed forests, to the reforestation of the Atlantic forest in Brazil. … [+]

I will not bore you with many words, the new designs that we have just presented in Frankfurt speak for themselves. There is a bit of everything: for different needs and sensibilities. All of them very marketable and easy to integrate in different atmospheres … [+]

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Music: Ismael Berdei

FLUO, designed by Arturo Alvarez, has just been awarded with the prestigious international design award “Good Design”. … [+]

The true is that at arturo alvarez we always have good luck and can count on a wonderful group of collaborators and designers. We would like to talk about the composer of the music of all our videos, a real and pleasant discovery! … [+]

Last December we attended the PechaKucha meeting in Galicia as guests. The designers were gathered from such different fields as photography, fashion, cookery, illustration, video-art… An original scene of new designers and artists, in different places of the planet. Created in 2003 by the designers Astrid Klein and Mark Dythan, nowadays it’s a worldwide reality. … [+]

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Music: Ismael Berdei

Ladies and Gentlemen here it is, METRICA. When we presented it in Milano last April, everyone praised its possibilities, both for domestic as specially for commercial premises and large surfaces … [+]

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Music: Ismael Berdei

Our raison d’être is to generate emotions through our designs. That is why we embodied in our new image and with our slogan, emotional light.

When an emotion settles on an inanimate object, this comes to life and it creates an aura above him … [+]

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Music: Ismael Berdei

Yes, Arturo Álvarez intends to honour pop art, because its values are the same and also the source of inspiration. The defiance to remove materials from its usual context and to construct different and distinguished elements. … [+]

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GUAU!!!… A moon eclipse at home!… The mysteries that involves GUAU can only be comprehensible if we understand every aspect lagging behind this object; with a naked eye is modest but it is also able to surprise us and to get us excited not only because of the beauty of its lighting effects but also with its versatility of movements that put it at our service. … [+]

OK… we decided to start a blog in order to offer an alternative to the very few company blogs existing nowadays in the sectors of furniture and lighting. The final aim is to have a direct line with you, in order to give you designs near to your guts, interests and motivation.

We want to show you our way of doing things, what for and why of our designs. … [+]

Acclaimed designers as Patricia Urquiola fix their views on the ancient techniques as well as the handicrafts, giving them proper noun and place in the current world of design.

Other artists as the Campana Brothers are demanding with their designs long time ago, not only the hand-made with highly new and original techniques, but also pumping up them with emotional and social contents by transforming materials with a history and uncertain past into pieces of art at the service of the human being. … [+]

During the last years, and more than ever, people need to see new things, the ones still able to give a surprise and excite. Because of this reason we have strongly decided to bet for innovation, not only in design but also in materials.

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