Parachute
Parachute Wall Shelf by Yusuke Watanabe is a winner of the 2021 Golden A' Design Award in Furniture Design.
Parachute is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs.
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When listening to Coldplay's first album, it suddenly occurred to the designer 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). Yusuke Watanabe thought that was a rather fine name. Yusuke Watanabe tried to think of devices that protect against falling. When in use, the plank for the section being used falls, and hangs there. Their coat, their magazine and more this protects them from falling. The sight of looking down on their parachute from up above is rather pleasing, too.
Featured Design
Parachute by Yusuke Watanabe
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Wall Shelf
Accolades
Furniture Design Award Winner in 2021.
Golden Winner
Parachute Wall Shelf
Parachute is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Parachute is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Parachute creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Winner Designer
Yusuke Watanabe
Product designer for a major appliance manufacturer Involved in development of information & household appliances Also heavily involved in creation of artwork for the music scene Designs for a wide variety of fields, focused on product design Active as a WD since 2016 2009 Working asProduct designer in Tokyo. 2015 SOCIAL DESIGN AWARD elected 2015 ELECOM Design Competition 2 1st prize 2015 NEWSED UPCYCLE DESIGN AWARD2015 Jury's Award 2016 Became a part-time lecturer at the Chiba Institute of Technology (-2017) 2017 Became a part-time lecturer at the Joshibi University of Art and Design 2017 Milano Salone Satellite 2017 VOGUE Paris "10 Young Designers" 2018 Milano Salone Satellite 2018 Sight Unseen "The Best of Milan design week" 2018 German Design Award Special mention 2019 Judge at a Taica αGEL idea creation 2019 2019 DFA awards Bronze Award
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Product designer for a major appliance manufacturer Involved in development of information & household appliances Also heavily involved in creation of artwork for the music scene Designs for a wide variety of fields, focused on product design Active as a WD since 2016
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