ABOUT US
LMC WOODWORKING
LMC Woodworking grows out of the shared experience of Pablo and Alex — two different paths that have crossed, separated and come together again over the years, always with wood at its centre.
Our professional journeys have often taken us in different directions, but they have always found their way back to one another.
Today, we still take on projects independently, but LMC Woodworking has become something that can only exist through the combination of both of us.
We are a team built around different ways of thinking, different skills and different forms of talent. What we share is a passion for making things, and a belief that the best work happens when creativity, craftsmanship and technical knowledge come together.
PABLO & ALEX
We met professionally by the very beginning of our careers. in 2007, we graduated as Higher Technicians in Wood and Furniture Product Development at IES V. de la Paloma in Madrid. That same year, we shared our first professional experience at ACA España (Architecture & Computer Aids), working with Decodesign, a 3D modelling and furniture design software.
In 2009, we began studying Interior Design together. Although neither of us eventually completed the course, those years introduced us to colour theory, new materials, spatial design and the possibilities of working with volume.
In 2011, we designed and built our first project together; that project was the starting point for everything yet to come.
From then on, our paths diverged. We´ve worked, studied and experimented in different environments, gradually finding our way back towards wood and furniture.
Along the way, we´ve been exploreing very different fields: from fine art and design to construction and industry; from digital modelling and audiovisual production to traditional craftsmanship. Each experience added something new to the way we understand wood making.
VANCOUVER
In 2013, our paths crossed again in Vancouver, British Columbia. Living and working in Canada gave us the opportunity to discover a completely different understanding of wood, not simply as a material, but also as a core to the culture, architecture and everyday life of an entire country.
We encountered new construction systems, techniques and ways of working that were far less developed in Spain, and experienced first-hand a culture in which woodworking and building with wood features a much more central place than we were used to.
That experience changed our approach to the woodworking craft, meaning a decisive step forward in our professional lives.... and the setting the beginning of the real adventure.
PABLO
Higher Technician in Wood and Furniture Product Development, 2007.
Bchelors Degree in Political Science and Public Administration, specialising in Political Analysis, 2008.
I have never been particularly comfortable with the idea that professions and trades should exist in separate ways. Curiosity has always pushed me to look beyond the boundaries of a particular discipline — to understand how things work, why they work and what connects them. That search has taken me through very different experiences and projects, each one contributing something to the way I approach my work today.
In 2008, I began preparing for the examinations to join the Madrid City Council Fire and Rescue Service. A knee injury forced me to abandon that path in 2010.
In 2011, I became involved in the cooperative behind "Vaho, Objeto Erótico", an online and quarterly magazine aiming to exploring sexuality and sensuality through artistic expression and journalistic reflection.
Canada opened up an absolute different chapter. In 2013, I joined VASS — Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports as a volunteer instructor, helping to prepare and train the alpine skiing competition team, a competitive team made up of young people with disabilities who are nonetheless highly capable of being extremely competitive.
That same year, together with a group of friends, I launched Spanish Party, a project that brought together food, culture and social events to promote Spanish culture and entrepreneurial initiatives within the Spanish community in British Columbia. Between 2013 and the summer of 2015, we organised events approximately every two months.
Different worlds maybe, different projects most likely, different skills they are, but always powered by the same curiosity: to learn, to understand and to make.
Documents
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Pablo — CV (Spanish)
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Pablo — Resume (English)
ALEX
I have always been fascinated by design, light, furniture and architecture. I am particularly interested in the way materials and volume can transform a space — how a room can acquire character, atmosphere and meaning simply through the way things are made and put together. That curiosity led me towards carpentry and design.
In 2007, I graduated as a Higher Technician in Wood and Furniture Product Development. It was the beginning of a path in which creativity and technical knowledge have continuously developed side by side.
My first professional experience was in a company specialising in 3D design and interactive catalogues for the furniture industry. There I first developed my skills in digital modelling and visualisation — an area that I have been exploring and experimenting with ever since.
Then it came my first real experience to the craft itself, I spent two years working in a small local interior carpentry workshop. It was there that I discovered the value of working with my own hands: the smell of sawdust, the rhythm of the workshop, the patience reuired by all traditional procedures and the satisfaction of seeing an idea become something touchable, of some real use and at the same time, playable, with a meaning in the way it was designed. By then I learnt that technique cannot be separated from design.
Technique is what allows an idea to become real.
In 2009, I began studying Interior Design at Escuela de Arte 4 in Madrid. After two years, I decided to take a different academic path and enrolled in a Higher Degree in Image and Audiovisual Production, where I graduated two years later, giving me access to perform a new role to my proflie; working in clubs and on artists' tours as an image technician.
In 2012, another element became part of the equation: music or, more precisely, music and image.
I performed as a DJ independently and as a DJ as part of the crew within a band with both national and international repercussion. At the time, I always kept working as a video technician on touring with major artists from the Spanish pop-rock and hip-hop scenes.
Wood, music and image have become three recurring elements in my work. Eventhough They may seem like very different disciplines, to me they share something fundamental: when theyare done, properly they have endurance as a common attribute. In the end this is what interests me most; being able to make and create tings ment to last.
Documentos