(Founder, PET Lamp, Spain)
Álvaro Catalán de Ocón in 2004 starts up his own studio in Barcelona where he designs LA FLACA lamp, winner of the Design plus Award (Frankfurt) and DELTA Awards in Barcelona. After his travel to the Colombian Amazon in 2011, he founds PET Lamp. This is a project that mixes the reuse of PET plastic bottles with selected traditional weaving techniques from different corners of the world in order to create unique handmade lampshades. Currently he combines his work with different companies with the production of some of his designs. In 2016, he cstarted ACdO, his own design editor brand to produce and distribute his personal projects.