29 October 2007
I almost don’t believe this exists. This is a panel created by the company 3Form. If you’re not familiar with 3Form, and you’re an interior designer than quit now. 3Form is becoming the preeminent interior surfaces and materials company with their plastic sheets embedded with fanciful objects such as grass and their beautiful use of colors and textures inscribed onto the plastic sheets. Now, apparently, they have started a new venture called Parametre. If this is real, Parametre is an extremely light weight 3D cellular system that can be used to create large dividing panels within an interior. The panels come in sizes and in 3 scales of pattern and can be custom made up to fourteen feet square. Here’s the strange thing: as far as I can tell, 3Form’s website makes no mention of this product, the product is ordered online at a price too good to be true ($30-ish dollars a sheet), and the website ends in a “.us” which seems a little unprofessional for a company doing good business. But you be the judge. Is it real? Please let me know.
Object: Parametre
Designer: 3Form
URL: www.parametre.us
Lust Factor: Hot
Categories: Architecture | Bumpy | Lust Factor: Hot | Plastic | Uncategorized | White
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Comments: 4 Comments
October 30th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
small, unfortunate typo… the price was too good to be true. you forgot to add another zero to the cost. A 2′ x’ 8′ sheet will run you $300, not $30.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Parametre is not a panel system, but a partition system made of different di-cut polyester patterns. It is lightweight and relitively simple to install…I heard a rumor the MOMA store may start distributing it.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:27 am
I was looking up more information on this product to see if I could find some reviews to show my client and ran across this site. I work for a large commercial architectural/ interior design firm in Houston, Texas… and we had a “vendor night” about 3 months ago and this product was there. I was blown away. My dream has finally become true because i’m using it for a part of one of my projects! Basically the space is a large rectangle with exits on either side… its original purpose was to create a dining center. In order to create 4 private dining areas, we decided to find a way to hang large partitions in all 4 corners to create private spaces. However, the client also said they wanted to use the space as a grand scale presentation theatre/ lecture hall which with stacking chairs should seat around 200. The other designers wanted to use something large scale and permanent but you would loose the spaces in the corners so instead… remembering the vendor night I contacted our local 3form rep and we’re using the product!
The point of this whole post though… was not only to talk about how excited I am about using this fantastic product….
its to tell you about a new product!… well a related one. With the original… one of the complaints was that there was no easy way to get it pulled up or folded…
The new product that is being introduced has a one touch button system that will fold up the product automatically so instead of dealing with it on your own or removing it from the suspended magnet system… it will just fold up like a shade!!!
Maybe I’m just way too excited… maybe not?
January 4th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
It almost looks like a beehive – I like the effects of shadow and light with the Parametre.