DESIGN NAME: Paddo
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Parasol
INSPIRATION: The Paddo finds its inspiration in the fairy tales from dwarfs,elves and the mystical world. Stories from our childhood. As a child everyting seems so big and beatiful, so we tried to get someting magical and beautiful back in to the real world. The world of the grown-ups. This resulted in a huge Mushroom.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the most beautiful Paddo in the world? The Paddo lives in a the fairytale world of dwarfs and elves of our childhood fantasies. Is it a small Paddo in a big world or a big Paddo in a small world ? The tracks under the roof of the Paddo are mysterious dancers the breeze of the good fairy.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The parasol is opened and closed by hand. The Parasol is opening almost automatic. just need an extra push for the last 20 cm to fix the Parasol in to the slot.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in January 2010 in Bruges and finished in August 2010 in Bruges, and was exhibited in Maison and Object at Paris September 2010.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Furniture Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: symacryl 100 percent acrylic 190 gram per square meter down fabric: gids are 100 percent polyester Pole: stainless steel inox 304 diameter 30 mm transparant coating Ribs: 8x steel powdercoated
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Diam 190 cm
Diam 245 cm
Diam 300 cm
TAGS: Parasol, Shade, Mushroom, Paddo, Fairytale, Elves, Dwarfs, childhood, playful, laugh
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Exploring the wonders of the mind by thinking really hard about the subject at hand. Come up with the best and most beautiful parasol ever. Bring your mind into a stream of consciousness and forget the world around you Using the www to find out what exists already. My memory, Google and Pinterest Sywawa These are first done on paper as sketches, then on computer as 3D models, then a prototypes in the workshop of Sywawa During prototyping, we discovered how the down fabric interacted beautifully by closing the parasol and reopening there were wrinkles mimicking the real world, unexpected but nice
CHALLENGE: to join 2 different types of fabrics so there are no wrinkles on the outside of the fabric.
ADDED DATE: 2016-06-27 12:57:54
TEAM MEMBERS (3) : Mathias hennebel, Lieven musschoot and
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Photographer Bart Descheemaeker, Studio Bades, 2010.
Image #2: Photographer Bart Descheemaeker, Studio Bades, 2010.
Image #3: Photographer Ushuiaia beach 2013.
Image #4: Photographer Bart Descheemaeker, Studio Bades, 2015.
Image #5: Photographer Bart Descheemaeker, Studio Bades, 2015.
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: copyrights belong to Symo nv, 2010
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