Anton Alvarez

Anton is a Swedish-Chilean designer based in London and Stockholm. He graduated in Product Design from the Royal College of Art. He studied fine art and cabinet making before completing an Interior Architecture and Furniture Design course at Konstfack, the University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm. Anton’s work focuses “on the design of systems and the creation of tools and processes for producing products.” Anton is attracted by post-industrial culture and do-it-yourself techniques. He creates mechanisms that “join different types of material with glue-coated thread, binding the objects together without any nails or screws.” He has a strongly anti-aesthetic approach to making, recovering and assembling existing material without being interested in the functionality or aesthetic of the finished object. By re-introducing waste materials, pieces of junk and other objects into the process, he brings out the playful qualities of design and object construction, as well as the iconoclastic and ironic dimensions of the contemporary creative process. Anton’s work encourages a strong emotive link between user and object, by revealing the process behind the making, rather than focusing purely on the finished form.  This is a radical design approach and shows a strong philosophy of self-construction. His projects have been exhibited at the Design Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Design Miami/ Basel, Art Brussels and Salone del Mobile.