Sebastián Alarcón is a product designer based in Quito, Ecuador. His practice is rooted in steel, shaped through iterative prototyping where contemporary manufacturing meets the hand. He works with standard profiles, sheets, and tubes, letting the logic of stock production become its own language.

A technical sensibility runs through the work, inherited from his parents — a mother drawn to craft, a father trained in mechanics. From this comes a close attention to how materials behave and how assemblies resolve, often finding direction in the making itself. Modularity remains an ongoing line of research; the pieces conceived less as fixed compositions than as systems open to being reorganized over time.

Quito offers a particular condition. Where industry never fully displaced the workshop, manual trades remain present and within reach — working shoulder to shoulder with a welder, a turner, a sheet metal operator, at a proximity the larger centers no longer allow. This proximity to making allows Sebastián to remain directly involved in production, continually expanding his technical knowledge through hands-on engagement with materials, tools, and processes..

In 2025 he launched ASET, a playground for exploration in furniture and objects, producing limited and small-batch editions with craftsmen in Quito. The work has been shown internationally, and featured in relevant design platforms.