Platino Mobiliario · 2021
Shelter Escritorio
- A' Design Award de Platino 2021 in Mobiliario
- CLIENT: Joao Teixeira Design Studio
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 2,413,749
- Verification code 95B6330EC9 · Verify this award
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About Shelter Escritorio
Shelter é un escritorio de madeira deseñado para o uso na oficina doméstica. O escritorio favorece a produtividade mediante unha mellor organización, cun acceso doado ao almacenamento e unha xestión oculta dos cables que os guía desde unha abertura traseira ata os caixóns dianteiros. Os caixóns con esquinas redondeadas confírenlle ao escritorio unha aparencia distintiva, e todos os elementos están aliñados para formar unha soa forma continua. O escritorio está feito principalmente de madeira natural, con dúas bisagras metálicas e un acabado de latón na parte traseira. A produción combina técnicas tradicionais con mecanizado CNC. O escritorio mide 1480 por 800 por 760 milímetros.
About the A' Design Award de Platino
Shelter Escritorio gañou o A' Design Award de Platino, un recoñecemento extremadamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños verdadeiramente excepcionais, elegantes e magníficos. Os gañadores Platino son marabillas da creación, testemuños dos límites da creatividade intelectual, e demostran o profesionalismo inigualable e o xenio dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que estes deseños sexan as obras máis renomeadas, que definen a estética dunha época, contribúen ao benestar da sociedade e fan avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Shelter Escritorio exhibe un nivel de excelencia transcendente e fai do mundo, sen ningunha dúbida, un lugar mellor coas súas características vantaxosas e valiosas. Shelter Escritorio é unha obra gañadora do A' Design Award de Platino que esperta desexos, inspira, emociona, deleita e desprega unha gran alegría.
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- Unique Properties
- The design language finds its most unique feature in the rounded corner drawers giving the desks a differentiating aspect and stylish look. Also, all elements were designed to align seamlessly between each other allowing for an overall singular design.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1480 mm x 800 mm x 760 mm
- Tags
- Desk, Wood, Wooden Desk, Desk Design, Wood Design, Furniture, Furniture Design
- Production Technology
- Desk production is based on traditional techniques, using common machinery to achieve precision like cnc and others. The desk is made using just two metallic hinges and a brass finish at the back as hardware as for the rest being natural wood. The rounded drawers are made using seams between joints in order to make the product more feasible and therefore affordable.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging aspect, and also the most fun as in many other designs, was the process of fine tuning some manufacturing details finding a balance between feasibility, aesthetics and function.
- Research
- Motivated by lockdown, Shelter arises as a natural impulse to design something that would fit most home offices environments enhancing their productivity. Since we had to adapt to new normal overnight there was a big demand on this kind of solutions, especially when witnessing a big wave of change as companies were letting employees to work from home. The insight was to design a desk oriented towards the mental health fluctuation during the pandemic, providing serenity, hence the name Shelter.
- Inspiration
- While designing the Shelter desk our main inspiration was to develop something focused on both function and aesthetics. We wanted to come up with a solution that could improve the users productivity by enhancing his organization layouts through useful features like clean cable management and easy storage access.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2020 in Porto and finished March 2021 in Porto.
- Operation Flow
- While developing Shelter desk the goal was to keep its usability as simple as its looks. For instance, the possibility to pass cables trough the back access to the front drawers seamlessly and in a hidden way is a clear aspect of performing better than most common desks in the market. The interaction between product and user is self explanatory as for the access for each of the storages the design approach clearly indicates where and how to open.
