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14-01-2021

Report: Navigate the future

What 2021 holds in store   We are all ready for a new way of living in this world. 2020 accelerated processes and transformations already happening and also brought about new changes...

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21-12-2020

Actiu success story

Alegre Design's relationship with Actiu, manufacturer of furniture for office, contract and hospitality spaces -National Design Award 2017- is a clear reflection of our philosophy and our way of working...

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09-12-2020

The new era of design

Four design scenarios that are changing our relationship with ourselves, home and society. 1. Urban mobility is increasingly sustainable   The future mobility will be designed around the challenging global realities we’re facing...

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09-12-2020

Reinventing the everyday all across the globe

Design, and Spanish design with an international outlook in particular, is flourishing. Not for nothing has Valencia been named World Design Capital 2022. For 20 years, Alegre Design has been...

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04-12-2020

A book that documents a decade of Valencian design

The book entitled "Valencian design (2009-2019), products for a global world" has been published and presented at an event held in the IVAMlab in the Museu Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM)....

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30-11-2020

Katzden: Design leads to evolution

Their work methodology and vision of the future as far as design and international markets are concerned has allowed Alegre Design to establish long-lasting and fruitful relationships with companies from...

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24-11-2020

Nofer’s Evo Collection at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

Nofer's Evo collection, represented by the automatic hydroalcoholic gel dispenser designed by Alegre Design, is part of the “Emergency! Design Against COVID-19" exhibition at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona. This...

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20-11-2020

Promoting spanish design to shape a new future

Design is a weapon loaded with the future. A tool capable of improving people's lives as long as it senses their needs and responds to them through innovation and value...

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12-11-2020

When an intuition becomes a product

Design requires intuition, creativity and technical knowledge as well. Devising products, services and experiences depends on the imagination of a creative mind, but there are many other factors that also...

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05-11-2020

The keys to a global product

Any product that aspires to be global must be based on three principles: it must generate innovation through processes, add value to the company (not only economically, but also through...

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26-10-2020

Internationalization through the product

A company's product is their best business card. More and more companies are starting to internationalize themselves through their products. This is the strategy that Alegre Design has also been...

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20-10-2020

Trendsetting, future-facing design

Alegre Design has been guided for over 20 years by the idea that the purpose of design is to provide what people need now and what they will need in...

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28-09-2020

From Spain With Design chooses Alegre Design

The aim of From Spain With Design is to create a global showcase for Spanish design. It is a cross-disciplinary project coordinated by READ, the Spanish Network of Design Associations,...

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28-09-2020

Alegre Design benchmark in Valencian design

The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) has organised a retrospective exhibition on the last decade of Valencian design and has selected nine of our designs as examples of the...

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13-07-2020

Back to school redefined by Agile Design

Agile Design has defined back-to-school, designing the furniture that students and teachers need and expect when they get back into the classroom. This is one of the projects we have...

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06-07-2020

Sharing our experts’ view on design and innovation

Our nearly twenty years of experience on design and innovation allow us to think beyond what is expected and to anticipate what people will need in the years to come.  Also,...

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26-05-2020

Agile Design, our new approach for a new era

In our nearly two decades of work focused on design and what people need we have designed services, experiences and products for different markets and industries in collaboration with a...

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23-04-2020

Marcelo: “Designers must have the intuition of what people will need, anywhere”

Our philosophy has always been that designers must have the intuition of what people will need, whether at work, at home or anywhere else. This philosophy is based on innovation....

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09-04-2020

#welookforward

Today’s context is hugely volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous but it  also presents an opportunity for organizations, companies and communities to test their resilience while exploring new and more agile...

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26-02-2020

Design and sustainability set up home

Design is constantly evolving. Materials and technologies are created and transformed to respond to new needs and uses, to facilitate processes and simplify people’s lives. Ambiente show in Frankfurt is a...

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12-02-2020

The future is now, smart technology opens new doors

The technological revolution is taking great strides and advancing along previously unexplored ways in increasingly diverse sectors. These new horizons change and evolve every year and have an unmissable meeting...

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28-11-2019

Katzden Architec | Fences, on the home straight for the 2020 Olympic Games

Our new fences for the Japanese company Katzden Architec were the stars of the recent Japanese triathlon, inside the sports preliminary races for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games....

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25-11-2019

Trim, recognized with a German Design Award

The German Design Award, the most prestigious design prizes in the German market, has once again recognized Trim chair for Actiu....

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11-11-2019

Design and education in Colombia

Marcelo Alegre has done an exposition in Colombia about the new chair designed for the Colombian education sector. ...

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17-10-2019

New studio, new strategic consultancy

Tres puntos gráficos grabados en el acero inoxidable que suponen una prueba de distinción de los productos Nofer...

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10-10-2019

Nofer | Three dots make the difference

Three graphic dots engraved in the stainless steel provide proof of the distinction of Nofer products....

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08-10-2019

Noom receives a 2019 European Product Design Award

Our Noom line, the versatile seating collection that we have developed for Actiu, has been rewarded with a 2019 European Product Design Award. ...

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16-05-2019

Technology research and advanced materials in Interzum

Alegre Design participates in this renewal by presenting at Interzum 2019, from the 21st to the 25th of May, five products that are designed to improve work, contract and collective...

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09-05-2019

Milan’s key trends for 2019

The Salone del Mobile of Milan has come and gone and has also left much to discuss and analyze. Our very own coolhunter Eleonora Saiz gives Alegre Design her forecast...

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05-04-2019

Alegre Design in Interzum

Next May we will be presenting nearly a dozen products at Interzum....

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28-01-2019

Alegre Design converses about new office trends in India

Last November saw the presentation in Paris of our new design for the medical sector, Eurus, a work station for dental professionals created for the Japanese firm Belmont....

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15-01-2019

Presenting Eurus,Takara Belmont’s new dental chair

Last November saw the presentation in Paris of our new design for the medical sector, Eurus, a work station for dental professionals created for the Japanese firm Belmont....

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15-01-2019

HipChair receives a Good Design Award

This award is granted by The Chicago Athenaem International Architecture and Design Museum....

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14-01-2019

Colour, Material and Finish trends in Winter 2019

Industrial design is not indifferent no trends when it comes to colour. Our Italian collaborator, Eleonora Saiz, has shared her insight about which are the colours of the moment, those...

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19-10-2018

Orgatec 2018: Products that bring design, technology and comfort to the office

This week we will attend Orgatec in Cologne (Germany) with three innovative furniture proposals, the design of which conjugates technology and ergonomics to provide a functional and efficient response to...

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20-07-2018

Katzden Architec’s 60th anniversary

It has been an honour and a pleasure to be able to take part in Katzden Architec’s 60th anniversary ceremony. Our journey with this Japanese company specialized in metal processing...

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10-07-2018

HipChair: A’ Design Awards

Our HipChair has been awarded with one of the prestigious A’ Design Award, in recognition of its design quality and innovative approach. This award, that HipChair has received in the Gold...

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06-07-2018

Actiu, 50 years of success

Actiu, a company we have been collaborating with for years, designing products such has the German Design Award winner TNK Flex, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. And they have started...

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04-06-2018

The biophilic office

One of the fastest growing trends in the workplace is that of the biophilic office, which sets out to bring nature into work environments, a factor that improves the state...

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23-05-2018

KLC becomes Gnosi in the USA

Our multi-purpose and versatile chair has become very successful in the USA where it has been renamed Gnosi by Sedia System. Gnosi, in its version aimed at the field of...

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23-05-2018

The connected suitcase

At Alegre Design we have been committed to education for a decade. Specifically, to the training of students of the Master’s Degree in Industrial Design at the Universidad CEU Cardenal...

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22-05-2018

STAY, in a new light

STAY, our customizable high-quality office chair for Actiu, is the star in this new video, which shows its user-friendliness and its chameleon-like adaptability to any working environment....

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23-03-2018

Flow lamp in Light + Building (Frankfurt)

Our Flow lamp, inspired by the silhouette of a flower and designed for FARO, has been presented in the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt (Germany), that showcases products,...

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15-02-2018

TNK Flex receives the German Design Award

Our chair TNK Flex has received one of the most prestigious awards in the design field, the German Design Award, which is granted to projects that “truly represent pioneering contributions...

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21-01-2018

Color trends in industrial design

Industrial design is not indifferent no trends when it comes to color. Our Italian collaborator, Eleonora Saiz, has shared her insight about which are the colors of the moment, those...

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06-11-2017

Sharing our experience in the Japanese market

Our strong relationship with the Japanese market has led to the creation of more than 40 products in the last five years, a track record that we will share on 29...

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31-10-2017

Smart furniture that anticipates the needs of the user

The concept of Smart Furniture was the key topic of a round table organised by Actiu at the Hábitat Valencia Trade Fair, at which we participated, together with other industrial...

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18-07-2017

Ergonomics, the hallmark of design

Alegre Design's almost fifteen years of experience have run parallel to the design of furniture for the workspace and the home. Over that time, we have incorporated the latest technological...

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28-06-2017

Our Fences will lead athletes at Tokyo 2020

Our new triathlon Fences will lead Olympic athletes at Tokyo 2020. These fences have already been used in preliminary trials, such as the Yokohama triathlon (Japan). This model, which stays true to...

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28-06-2017

Estaremos en el PechaKucha Valencia

El próximo 6 de julio participaremos en la nueva edición de PechaKucha Valencia, una velada que se ha convertido en una cita de referencia para quienes desean conocer de primera...

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06-06-2017

Sedia Systems launches the KLC Educational in NeoCon

Sedia Systems will introduce in NeoCon (Chicago, June 12th-14th) the new KLC Educational chair by Alegre Design. At the Merchandise Mart Suite #11-121, visitors will be able to discover this chair’s...

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15-05-2017

Our top ten trends at iSaloni 2017

Now that a few weeks have passed since we returned from Milan and from our visit to the most important trade fair in the furniture world (iSaloni), we have had...

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15-11-2016

TNK Flex, Cron and TNK A500, recognized as the best product designs on the professional portfolio site Behance.

In the past few weeks, three of the operative chair models we designed for Actiu have been selected in the Best Product section that Behance, the most important professional network...

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01-11-2016

Deco Twist and Deco Bubble, at the Tokyo Design Week

From October 26th to 31st  we have been in the Tokyo Design Week presenting our latest creations, exclusive to the Japanese market, Deco Twist and Deco Bubble. We have presented...

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31-10-2016

TNK Flex, the best office chair in Orgatec according to Archiproduct

Our chair TNK Flex for Actiu, which has formally been presented in this edition of Orgatec, has been awarded with the best product of the show in the Office Chair...

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10-09-2016

Cesta in Tokio

We got these pictures from Japan where we can see our new product Cesta installed in all the city of Tokyo, Japan. We couldn’t be happier with the result! Desde Japón nos...

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23-06-2016

eFit and TNK Flex premiere in NeoCon

We are back from NeoCon, really happy with the attention our latest office chair designs for Actiu have caught. On June 13-15, NeoCon trade show was held in Chicago and simultaneously,...

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11-04-2016

Mobenia Luxury presents Soho and Evolve at iSaloni in Milan

The two latest designs by Alegre Design are currently being displayed at iSaloni in Milan, the world’s most important furniture trade show. Soho is a chair inspired by the sophistication of...

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22-02-2016

Design for our cities

Look in pdf the article: Alegre Design in "El diseño de la ciudad" magazine City spaces are sometimes taken for granted, but they are essential for creativity and design. Diseño de la...

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12-02-2016

Alegre Design in Feria Hábitat Valencia

Feria Hábitat Valencia is the showcase where we recently displayed some of our newest designs for the current period. On the one hand, the new TNK Flex office chair, designed for...

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01-02-2016

Transit and Viva, top Spanish designs

The ICEX, in partnership with the different resources they have available to promote the Spanish designers worldwide (Interiors from Spain, Design), has just created the guide “Una oleada de diseño...

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22-01-2016

DissenyCV interviews Alegre Design

Look here the interview: http://bit.ly/1L58pN8 (Spanish) By means of this interview, the team at Alegre Design wanted to present the three key points that have made possible the international renown our design studio...

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19-10-2015

Double page feature on Plaza

This month, Alegre Design is the design studio MADE IN CV in the magazine Plaza, by Valencia Plaza editions. ...

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27-09-2015

Modern Decoration

The Chinese magazine Modern Decoration has published some of our last pieces for B&V and Actiu. ———————————- La revista china Modern Decoration ha publicado alguna de nuestras últimas piezas para su número...

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19-09-2015

The difference lies in the design. Alegre Design in Spain Contract

Report about our way to work in Spain Contract....

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06-07-2015

Alegre Design is ready for the US

Bringing the way we work to this side of the Atlantic and providing solutions to the needs of the American market has been our main goal in the last few...

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24-06-2015

Alegre Design in NeoCon

Our our TNK A500 chair, manufactured by Actiu, was exhibited in the Interiors from Spain (ICEX) booth....

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12-06-2015

Finally we are in Houzz!!

It is one of the most important websites in the world, addressed to professionals of the interior design and decoration, with a great number of followers in the UEA. We...

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25-05-2015

Wanted Design NYC pictures

We come back to Valencia very pleased with our experience at Wanted Design NYC‬. We have learnt a lot, we have gotten an insight of the american market and their needs...

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13-04-2015

Wanted Design in NewYork

Alegre Design is one of the Spanish design studios invited to participate in Wanted Design, a design products and studios exhibition taking place 15th to 18th May in New York,...

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23-03-2015

Ikon in aXtemporal desiGn

We have no words to describe how we feel after reading what AXtemporal desiGn said about us in their article about Ikon by B&V Tapizados. Thanks for such a thoughtful, descriptive and well...

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12-02-2015

Welcome back in Feria Hábitat Valencia

This year, Alegre Design is back at the Feria Hábitat Valencia to present our new projects for name brands. Firstly, we will be in the Actiu stand with our new office...

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21-01-2015

A global brand

The international scope of the markets and the search for consolidation on a world-scale has motivated us to develop the basics of our brand. For 2015 we want to embark...

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07-10-2014

New Metting: Orgatec

The most important office furniture fair is held in Cologne from 21st to 25th October 2014. Orgatec will be a rallying point for the best companies of the world and professionals of...

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15-09-2014

Catalogue 2015

At Alegre Design, we imagine a world where every product we create, use and consume is respectful of people and their environment. Our aim is to bridge the gap between...

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04-09-2014

KidsLofty in Taiwan

Taiwan's Interior Design magazine has published a report about our stairs KidsLofty. Thanks!...

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10-07-2014

Le Trophée des objets connectes

The WeOn Glasses were finalists in a new awards category that was  held last June 19th in Paris: The Connected Objects Award. The WeOn Glasses competed in the Transport and...

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12-04-2014

Proyecto IBE-RM

Las tecnologías de Rapid Manufacturing (fabricación rápida) permiten la obtención de prototipos o piezas finales altamente personalizadas y de geometría compleja a partir de la deposición continua de capas de...

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03-03-2014

Two new patents

The Japanese Company Katzden Architec CO. LTD, producer of our Cesta and Sit Bike designs, has been granted the patent of both designs with the aim of preserving their rights in Japan. An initiative...

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27-02-2014

«Diálogos de diseño» en Feria Hábitat Valencia

In Februay we were in Feria Hábitat Valencia in the ADCV stand talking with Soledad Berbegal from ACTIU talking about our collaboration and our working philosophy. It was a great...

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24-02-2014

Actiu and Cosentino fuse our Arkitek table with the Dekton surface

In the last Feria Hábitat Valencia, Actiu presented a new collaboration with Cosentino, a company famous all around the world for their product Silestone. It was our Arkitek table combined...

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18-12-2013

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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17-12-2013

News lectures in Elisava

Starting in September we are giving lectures in the Master Degree’s in Furniture Design for Contract in the Elisava School of Design an Engineering of Barcelona. In addition to describing...

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10-12-2013

Japanese publications

It feels weird to see our products in Japenese publications, but we’re also really proud! It seems that Cesta and Sit Bike have been very successful in the land of...

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05-12-2013

Tetina dental para Suavinex

Choosing a dummy , a teat… it’s so hard to choose! We have designed a teat which looks after the teeth before they come in. The teething teat of the new Chupete Dental...

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21-10-2013

Cesta & Sit Bike, our two new designs directed to Japan

Alegre Industrial Studio has designed two bike stands for Japan, in a cultural exchange for industrial design. They have created these bike stands for Japanese company Katzden Architec Inc., which...

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08-10-2013

New Alegre Design’s Brochure

Alegre Design is creating a new concept of studio based on "design as a global concept". At Alegre Design, we imagine a world where every product we create, use and...

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26-07-2013

TNK chairs in designboom office

Good news! Our chairs TNK30 of Actiu are the new acquisition to the editorial office of Designboom, a blog reference in ‪ architecture‬ and ‪design‬, based in Milan, Italy. http://bit.ly/13scrXM --------------------------------------------- Buenas...

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10-07-2013

«We try to make a difference with creativity in each one of our designs». Interview in DiarioDesign

DiarioDesign has made an interview with Marcelo Alegre due to the Delta's award, where "Stay", our new office chair, has been selected as a finalist. It's a big pleasure to...

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25-06-2013

Stay in Dexigner, design magazine from NY

Dexigner, one of the most influence design blog, has made a review about Stay, our last design lounch for ACTIU. We are so proud to be in this website with...

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13-06-2013

Re-launch of Hola y Adiós for PUNT.

Punt Mobles has been a benchmark in the design and production of furniture for the past 25 years in Spain, and now it is back and stronger than ever with...

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20-05-2013

Stay, finalist for the Delta Awards 2013

Stay, the new customizable office chair designed by AlegreIndustrial Studio is one of the finalists in the Delta Awards 2013, the most important industrial design awards in Spain. The panel...

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13-05-2013

II Jornadas Informativas de Aimplas

Next Thursday May 16, Aimplas, Technological Institute of Plastics, celebrates its second informative conference. It will be under the slogan "Why not plastic?". Part of the extensive program presented, Marcelo...

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02-05-2013

AlegreIndustrial Studio in ´Decora tu casa`

Decora tu casa, a spanish magazine about decoration has made a report about our studio and the last projects that we have done. A pleasure! Read it here.  ...

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17-04-2013

Stay in Md-Mag, german design magazine

MD magazine featured our studio over two pages of its March issue, highlighting our latest design, STAY, an office chair in the ACTIU range. As well as listing all the...

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22-03-2013

AlegreIndustrial Studio in Archilovers

Last February we had the pleasure of spending some time with our Italian friends from ARCHILOVERS who interviewed us in a most enjoyable session. The interview can be seen in...

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05-03-2013

“From Valencia with design”

Thursday, March 7 at "Las Naves" Centro de Creación Contemporánea, opens th exhibition "From Valencia with Design", organized next to Asociación de Diseñadores de la Comunidad Valenciana. In it, you...

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24-10-2012

Alegreindustrial Studio in Orgatec

Alegreindustrial Studio will be attending Orgatec, Europe’s leading trade show for office design and planning, on 23-27 October in Cologne (Germany). This will be the venue for the official launch...

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10-10-2012

Press Article

Last April, “Las Provincias” published an article on Valencian design and on the pieces selected to celebrate the tenth anniversary of NUDE, the Young Designers’ Show at the Feria Habitat...

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27-09-2012

Vienna Design Week

Alegreindustrial Studio has been selected to showcase its designs at the "10 años de NUDE" exhibition, celebrating 10 years of the young design section of Feria Hábitat Valencia and paying...

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24-09-2012

Alegreindustrial Studio is revolutionising the chair market with two new designs

Industrial design company Alegreindustrial Studio was set to take part in an exhibition at the Valencia Disseny Week, showing off its two latest creations - the TNK A500 chair and...

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22-03-2012

WINNER REDDOT 2012

The A500 office chair, designed by Alegreindustrial Studio for Actiu, has been awarded a Red Dot Design Award 2012. This is the second Red Dot given to an Alegreindustrial Studio design,...

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06-02-2012

PHRASE OF THE WEEK

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20-12-2011

AIMPLAS CONFERENCE

Last week, has taken place the conference about "Ecodiseño como factor Competitivo" at AIMPLAS (Technological Institute of Plastics). Alegreindustrial Studio has taken part in this important event. Read more...

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02-12-2011

POSITIVE, INSPIRATIONAL DESIGN

Alegreindustrial Studio sees design in global terms – as something which spans the entire process of the development of its services and products. It’s a reasonably well-established design studio founded...

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02-12-2011

FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL NETWORKS

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, Check it out! Enjoy your IPad!!!...

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29-09-2011

VDW TRADE FAIR NANA ROCKING CHAIR

ALEGREINDUSTRIAL STUDIO presented the prototype of its new NANA nursing chair at the latest Valencia Design Week trade fair. NANA is bringing back the traditional rocking chair to help strengthen...

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29-09-2011

NUDE ROUND TABLE

"Efficiency and sustainability in product design", from the initial design concept to the finished product, using an ecodesign approach in the manufacturing process: this was the topic of conversation at...

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12-07-2011

Marcelo Alegre reveals the making of the TNK A500: Sustainable Engineering and Creativity

Advanced engineering and creativity are completely compatible with sustainability. Marcelo Alegre, designer for Actiu TNK A500program, revealed in FADfest 2012 the making of the new chair. The presentation took place in...

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17-05-2011

For a better more sustainable future

A crowded conference on design and sustainability took place on 17 May in the facilities of Actiu Technological Park in Castalla, Alicante, with internationally renowned professionals such as the architect...

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03-05-2011

RED DOT DESIGN AWARDS GALA

On the 2nd of July, Alegreindustrial Studio attended the Red Dot Gala to collect its Red Dot 2012 Product Design Award for its TNK A500 office chair. The gala took place...

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20-04-2011

NUDE 10º ANIVERSARIO | Milano

Alegreindustrial Studio designs will be shown as part of the Nude 10º Aniversario exhibition at the Instituro Cervantes in Milan (17.04 to 15.05). This exhibition will coincide with...

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01-02-2011

AVANT AT MD

Avant has been shown in the MD Magazine with some principals products in the Valencia Furniture fair 2011. Read more at ...

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11-11-2010

TOKIO DESIGN WEEK 2011

From the 1st to the 6th of November 2011, has taken place the most important design week in Japan, the Tokyo Designers Week. Alegreindustrial Studio has taken part in this...

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30-09-2010

NEW ALEGREINDUSTRIAL STUDIO BRAND

ALEGREINDUSTRIAL STUDIO is creating a new concept of studio based on "design as a global concept". At ALEGREINDUSTRIAL STUDIO, we imagine a world where every product we create, use and...

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