On 23 October, the winner was selected for the furniture competition organised by Galician company Bomob, a small furniture manufacturer that has been in the market for over a decade and which holds this competition every year aimed at industrial design students. The winner obtains something unusual in this type of competition: the company’s commitment to manufacture and market the winning piece. In competitions aimed at students, the organisers generally reserve the right to manufacture the winning pieces. This was the second Bomob awards competition and it seems to be consolidating itself. The winning student was Máximo Romanillos from Madrid, who finished his industrial design specialisation at Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid this year. The winning piece was a chair which, according to the experts, is the most difficult piece of furniture to design. Why? Perhaps because it has to perform ergonomic functions and also because it is practically impossible to make something that has not already been made before. The winning chair is called Excommunication and both the back and the seat are made of two different materials: one is made of wood and the other of a high-tech material such as Corian® or Silestone®. Conceptually, the author explains it as the fight or fraternity between tradition and modernity. A small cut and a curvature give the chair another personal touch as well as a functional added value such as a handle or small hanger. The metal tubular legs in the form of skates give it a Nordic and minimal touch. Máximo Romanillos is also an industrial engineer and, for the last four years, has been designing and developing other products such as the Game Over? Chair inspired by Meccano or by the Easy Tea tea set. He is currently cooperating with designer Marre Moerel in a project that will soon be presented in Paris.

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maxi@mye.e.telefonica.net
Javier Abio