Journal

How to Recognise a Quality Umbrella: Seven Characteristics

A quality umbrella cannot be judged by one specification alone. What matters is how the frame, canopy, mechanism, handle and closed form work together.

Straight or Curved? How the Handle Shapes an Umbrella

The handle is the part of an umbrella experienced most directly. It rests in the hand, affects how the umbrella is held while walking and influences how it can be carried or placed when closed.

Designed Inside and Out: The Double-Layered Canopy of the Sapor Distinct

Most Sapor Distinct designs combine two separate layers of fabric in a single canopy. A closer look at how the exterior, interior, colour, materiality and sound are conceived as one.

How Wind-Resistant Can an Umbrella Be? What Stability Really Means

What makes an umbrella wind-resistant? How the frame, fibreglass ribs, canopy and appropriate handling work together.

Care Begins in the Details: On the Value of Everyday Objects

On care as a design practice and why even an everyday object deserves to be considered as a whole.

Designed as a Whole: The Sapor Iconic in Detail

Designed as a Whole: The Sapor Iconic in Detail