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Press Kit

Unique Properties

When in use, the plank for the section being used falls, and hangs there.

Your coat, your magazine... this protects them from falling.

Dimensions & Packaging

W:790mm D:30mm H:220mm

Tags

Wall Shelf, Furniture, WD, YusukeWatanabe, Minimal, Tokyo, Japan

Production Technology

Parachute was made by sheet metal.
With the colored stripes separated by thin spaces, the graphic design is reminiscent of a modern parachute; this theme is transformed, in a recognisable and aesthetically successful manner, into an original shelf design.

Design Challenge

Yusuke Watanabe designed a new type of wall shelf, looks like Wall Art.

Yusuke Watanabe was worried about color of gradation, Through trial and error we found best ways. looks like Wall Art.

Inspiration

When listening to Coldplay's first album, it suddenly occurred to me to look up the word "Parachute."

It seems that the name "parachute" comes combining the Italian "parare" (to protect) with the French "chute" (to fall).

I thought that was a rather fine name.
I tried to think of devices that protect against falling.
When in use, the plank for the section being used falls, and hangs there.

Your coat, your magazine... this protects them from falling.

Project Duration

The project started in April 2017 in Tokyo and finished in October 2018 in Tokyo, and Yusuke Watanabe was exhibited in Salone del Mobile in April 2018.

Operation Flow

When in use, the plank for the section being used falls, and hangs there.

Image Credits

Photo / Hiroki Watanabe