London-based Spanish designer Tomás Alonso exhibited a collection of lights, tables, benches and chairs at the NextLevel Galerie in Paris in 2009. It was his first solo show. I came across these images of the exhibition on Pinterest after looking for some interiors inspiration and really liked the colourful tubing that held the pieces together.
Alonso sites his inspiration in the pioneers of the Modern Movement, from Weimar to Milan. He moved to London and gained a Master’s at the Royal College of Art after an entire decade of study and professional practice in the USA, Australia and Italy. Alonso sums up his design method as “an intelligent morphological synthesis of a technicist type, which focuses on functionality as an absolute value and turns it into an idea for products which are quick and easily understandable”. He uses both wood and metal, inverting the usual way in which these two materials are perceived: wood is reduced to very slender sticks, while iron is curved and coloured.
Images Nick Ballon
