Oliver Bals is a trained architect and a designer by vocation. The emphasis of his work is on kitchen design and production-ready development of furniture and useful objects. Through the Carpintectura brand he designs and builds kitchen and furniture with a strong personal character. Lately he founded bcndsn.com as a platform to commercialize his own and other barcelona based designers work to industry and final customers. He has a strong commitment to sustainability, energy and cost efficiency, ecology and conservation of resources, as well as a focus on details, functional and esthetic coherence. For all his experience, he always tries to keep alive a beginner’s spirit, which enables him to scan every projects whole wealth of possibilities, and then identify the appropriate functional and poetic response.