Avante
Avante Sofa by Valeriano Villegas Goyos is a winner of the 2017 Bronze A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Avante is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Inspired in the character and style of the twentieth Century molded plywood furniture pieces, Avante is a three-seater sofa designed with symmetry and proportion, using basic geometrical forms and natural materials. It is a freestanding seating option suitable for a lounge area. The seat and backrest offer comfort and support, allowing people to adopt a proper sitting posture. The backrest and seat feature curved plywood shells with cushions upholstered in cotton, mounted on a solid wood frame-base with four legs. Avante intends to provide comfort, style and connection between people.
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Avante by Valeriano Villegas Goyos
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Sofa
Accolades
Furniture Design Award Winner in 2017.
Bronze Winner
Avante Sofa
Avante is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Avante is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Avante splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Valeriano Villegas Goyos
Born in Mexico City in 1982. Graduated from La Salle University as a Mechanical Engineer in 2007, Valeriano began his career within the automotive industry in the departments of engineering and quality assurance, where he acquired knowledge and experience in product engineering, manufacturing processes and quality management. Driven by his passion for wooden furniture design, Valeriano became a self-taught furniture designer, and in 2010 he opened his own design studio in his hometown in Mexico. In 2016, he moved to Germany with the aim to share his designs and expand his experience as a product designer. Valeriano has designed a wide variety of furniture pieces such as: chairs, dining tables, coffee tables and cabinets. He has experience working with different styles, manufacturing techniques and materials. He finds inspiration on basic geometrical forms and natural materials. Sketched with symmetry and proportion, his designs are characterized by defined lines, highlighted by the natural beauty of wood. For him, wood represents the connection between society and nature. He believes that along with design and fine carpentry, it brings beauty, warmness and style into living spaces.
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Valeriano Villegas
Designs a wide variety of furniture pieces such as: chairs, dining tables, coffee tables and cabinets. Able to produce designs through different styles, manufacturing techniques and materials. He finds inspiration on basic geometrical forms and natural materials. Sketched with symmetry and proportion, his designs are characterized by defined shapes, highlighted by the natural beauty of wood.
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