Raúl Laurí was born in Alicante, Spain in 1980. He is a material lover. Always looking for new materials from our daily culinary waste. Raúl was graduated as a Product designer in EASD Alcoy, He also studied materials & process and he got a wide expertise at product’s designing and development, thanks to eight years as a head of Technical Department at company DIEN, three years as a freelance designer and one year at I+D+i of “ACTIU”. Raúl Laurí has also received a number of prestigious awards including First Prize at Salone Satellite Award 2012.

In 2012 he decided to launch his own studio “Raúl Laurí design lab” carrying out the design and self-production of the pieces with “decafé”, a new material made of used coffee grounds.