Take Care’s Umbrella Stand brings a little piece of nature into your home. Granted, the image of the stand shows a green grass growing in it which might be impossible, but I’m sure house plants could easily survive in the planter as well. The concept is pretty smart though: the residual water from the stand is used to nourish the plants with water. Of course, for us Californians, we would need to add water in the summertime, but I would imagine for Seattle the rain water from the umbrella would feed the planting quite well.
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The beauty of this design is it’s so practical yet it’s so stupid looking. The advertising says, " On a rainy day, it will be the wings for your arms". Which is a not so good way of saying that the UFOCAP frees your hands from the umbrella. So, it solves a great problem: staying dry without giving up a hand for a traditional umbrella. I can’t wait to until the patent runs out on this design, because I would love to see what a strong fashion designer could make of this new typology.

The umbrella but no handle UFOCAP