--- title: "Tomás Alonso" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tomas-alonso" language: "en" type: "designer" description: "Individual designer items from Tomás Alonso ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2001-05-01T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2026-04-26T16:38:31+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Tomás Alonso London, United Kingdom - [Biography](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tomas-alonso) - [Products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/tomas-alonso) - [Manufacturer](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tomas-alonso/manufacturer) - [Articles](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/tomas-alonso/contributions) - [Website](http://www.tomas-alonso.com) Address: ## Tomás Alonso 35 Bentley Road N1 4BY London United Kingdom [www.tomas-alonso.com](http://www.tomas-alonso.com) Products by Tomás Alonso [![A-Side Table](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/d/delightfull/produkte/a/acerbis/produkte/d/delightfull/produkte/h/hay/produkte/a-side-table/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/a-side-table-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/hay/a-side-table) [HAY A-Side Table](https://www.stylepark.com/en/hay/a-side-table) [![A Frame Table](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/k/karimoku-new-standard/produkte/a-frame-table/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/a-frame-table-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/karimoku-new-standard/a-frame-table) [Karimoku New Standard A Frame Table](https://www.stylepark.com/en/karimoku-new-standard/a-frame-table) [All products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/tomas-alonso) Biography Tomás Alonso is a cosmopolitan craft designer born in Spain. He appears to have initially been influenced by the resounding but very concise charm of the pioneers of the Modern Movement, from Weimar to Milan. He eventually opted for London and a Master's at the Royal College of Art after an entire decade of study and professional practice in the USA, Australia and Italy, which merged into a clear and pragmatic vision of life, soon translated into his own line of elegant, linear and poetic objects finding his own dimension in the field of the "authorial" design. His method, which might be described as "à la Castiglioni" due to its ideological simplicity, can be summed up as an intelligent morphological synthesis of a technicist type, which focuses on functionality as an absolute value and turns it into an idea for products which are quick and easily understandable into their constitutive elements. The very simple aesthetic qualities of his objects reveal the expressive potential of each specific material, which is also his main source of inspiration, conveying an expressive immediacy which makes his products universal and transgenerational. He uses both wood and metal in a sober, soft and practical manner, skilfully inverting the usual way in which these two materials are perceived: wood is reduced to very slender, squared, vectorial sticks, iron is curved, warm and coloured. For him the boundary between art and design is never hazy. Even his publishing work, developed "with his own hands" in his big fully-equipped workshop shared with OKAY Studio collective of designers, never crosses that line which now tends to be rather vague and the cause of frequent, paradoxical misunderstandings. Articles about Tomás Alonso [DESIGN The Magnificent Seven Friends 7/22/2016 Dresden’s Kunstgewerbemuseum has invited seven international designers to Schloss Pillnitz to contemplate friendship in design in an age of omnipresent rivalry.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-magnificent-seven-friends) [MAGAZINE Flooring as an artwork and design object 1/29/2013 The times when flooring led an existence as the Cinderella of the interior design world are over. The whole industry has discovered its creative side and carpeting has received something of an image makeover over the past few years. But wooden and laminate flooring aren’t far behind. This year, Domotex in Hanover even put on a special show on its leading theme “Flooring Deluxe”, curated by designer Stefan Diez.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/flooring-as-an-artwork-and-design-object) [MAGAZINE Tomás Alonso: Furniture made of laminate 1/9/2013 “…to be honest I had never really stopped to think about laminate flooring before…”](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/tomas-alonso-furniture-made-of-laminate) [MAGAZINE Not the same old, same old! 11/19/2012 We could not blame you for already being excited about what’s to come at the next domotex from January 12 through 15, 2013. Organizers Deutsche Messe have already caused a sensation with a preview. The leading trade fair for flooring has managed to get none other than designer Stefan Diez on board to create a setting that is attractive for exhibitors and visitors alike.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/not-the-same-old-same-old) [MAGAZINE Japanese for everyone 9/21/2012 The traditional Japanese furniture maker Karimoku has reinvented itself as a new label. Karimoku New Standard fields products made of wood with an unmistakable Japanese touch – and collaborates in the process with designers such as Scholten & Baijings.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/japanese-for-everyone)