Parachute Prateleira de Parede by Yusuke Watanabe

Parachute Prateleira de Parede by Yusuke Watanabe is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Ouro in Design de Mobiliário Competition Category.

OuroMobiliário· 2021

Parachute Prateleira de Parede

by Yusuke Watanabe

Client: WD Co,Ltd

A' Design Award de Ouro Winner in Mobiliário Category

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The Design

About Parachute Prateleira de Parede

Parachute é uma prateleira de parede feita de chapa metálica. Quando uma seção está em uso, a prancha dessa seção desce e fica suspensa no lugar. A prancha suspensa sustenta um casaco, uma revista ou itens semelhantes e evita que caiam. A superfície apresenta faixas coloridas separadas por finos espaços, de modo que a prateleira remete à aparência gráfica de um paraquedas moderno e também pode ser interpretada como arte de parede. Parachute mede 790 mm de largura, 30 mm de profundidade e 220 mm de altura. O nome une as ideias de proteger e de cair.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ouro

Parachute Prateleira de Parede conquistou o A' Design Award de Ouro, um reconhecimento imensamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de primeira linha, maravilhosos e notáveis. Os vencedores do Ouro são criações extremamente inovadoras, visionárias e glamorosamente deslumbrantes, que refletem o prodígio, a sabedoria e a proeza dos seus designers. Espera-se que Parachute Prateleira de Parede seja uma invenção muito elogiada, pioneira e monumental, que oferece um valor sem precedentes. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ouro é um projeto espetacular e respeitado, que beneficia muito e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Parachute Prateleira de Parede cria sentimentos intensos de desejo, evoca paixão, incentiva a criatividade e fascina-nos.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Team Members: Yusuke Watanabe
Image Credits: Photo / Hiroki Watanabe