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DESIGN NAME:
The FA.B.
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Fabric Bookcase
INSPIRATION:
People’s rapidly increasing book storage needs.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The “Fa.B.” is a fabric bookcase and a fabulous new way to store, arrange and protect your books and magazines. Outside the rationale of any shelving system, “Fa.B.” offers the user renewable storage space. A single or more modular fabric units can be added to the wooden stand in a few minutes. The durable fabric along with the wide open wooden sides of “Fa.B.” gives us the opportunity to use as little raw materials and natural resources as possible, according to the dematerialization approach that our times require.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION:
The “Fa.B.” is a fabric bookcase and a fabulous new way to store, arrange and protect your books and magazines. It is suitable for your home and office and it can be used as a bookcase and a room divider at the same time. A single or more modular fabric units can be added to the wooden stand in a few minutes. In this way, every time your storage needs increase you don’t have to purchase more shelves or even a new bookcase. The castors allow you to move your fully loaded “Fa.B.” around the room effortlessly– as opposed to the traditional bookcase. The “Fa.B.” is a foldable – literally!- and easy to assemble flat-pack furniture.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION:
The project started in September 2011 in Athens and finished in December 2011 in Athens. It was exhibited in DESIGN 2011 design exhibition at the Municipal Gallery of Athens where it was received by the visitors with great enthusiasm for its sustainable design.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY:
Furniture Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY:
“Fa.B.” is made of birch plywood (laser cut). Birch wood, when harvested from sustainably managed forests, poses low environmental risks. The fabric units are made of a recyclable, resilient, stain resistant, wrinkle-free fabric. The castors are made of steel and rubber. Steel is a 100% recyclable metal and rubber can be turned into rubber mulch. The “Fa.B.” as a flat-pack furniture, helps to reduce volume and thus carbon dioxide’s emissions, during transportation.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES:
Height x length x width: 180cm x 100cm x 45cm
TAGS:
fabric bookcase, book storage, sustainable design
RESEARCH ABSTRACT:
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CHALLENGE:
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ADDED DATE:
2012-02-28 11:08:29
TEAM MEMBERS (1) :
Foant Asour
IMAGE CREDITS:
Aliki Rovithi, 2011.
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NAME:
DEDE DextrousDesign
PROFILE:
Aliki Rovithi and Foant Asour formed an Athens based industrial design team called DEDE DextrousDesign. They have been working together since 2007 and they have participated in “DESIGN 2009”,“DESIGN LAB 2010”, “GREEN DESIGN FESTIVAL 2010”, “GREEK DESIGN 2011%”, “SMLXL HELLENIC DESIGN” and “DESIGN 2011”, design exhibitions in Athens.
From the 14th to the 19th of April 2010 DEDE participated in the international fair for young designers SALONESATELLITE 2010, in Milan.
DEDE think that innovation, conceptual approach and humor can generate unorthodox and stimulating thinking that contributes to progressive ideas and therefore to unconventional design items.
DEDE received the RED DOT award:design concept 2010 for the THIS SIDE UP table. Their humanitarian aid packaging THE HAP PROJECT was nominated for the INDEX: Award 2011. INDEX: Award is looking for designs that target and solve the challenges and problems of human life.
From 23 to 27 of April 2011 DEDE’s work was presented at the DESIGN SHOW of the 109th CANTON FAIR, in Canton, China.
Their design item GET THE HANG OF IT bag won the Platinum A’ Design award 2010-2011, while their WEDDING STOOL and their 1000cc CERAMIC CARAFE received the runner-up status achievement 2010-2011.
Aliki Rovithi was born in Athens, Greece. She received a university degree in mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece and a BA (Hons) in industrial and product design from the Middlesex University
(Athens branch).
Foant Asour was born in Athens, Greece. He attended the arabic high school in Athens and received a higher diploma in industrial and product design from the Middlesex University (Athens branch).
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