If you have a glass lobby in your office/home, and want to really impress your clients/friends…it’s time for you to get in touch with Choate Carbon out of Brazil. Choate Carbon was commissioned by a wealthy local (Brazil) businessman to build a carbon fiber door for his home lobby elevator area:
The door was manufactured using vacuum bagging, 300k twill (2X2), divinycell and polypropylene honeycomb core, epoxy resin, and finished with a matte lacquer with U.V. additives. It weighs 99lbs and is 7.5′x4.9′. The final cost was around $15,000.
The door features a biometric finger print scanner for the lock, which is also wrapped in carbon fiber goodness.
Patrick Choate from Chaote Carbon has been keeping me abreast of the development of the door for a couple of months now, we’re both really excited to see the final product. The project started out with some development drawings:
The design is quite modern, and I love how it fits the frameless glass in the room. The handle is simply an inset into the door, which is great…it adds to the simplistic modern aspect of it. This has most definitely proven Choate’s skill in carbon fiber product development, and we’re excited to see what is to come.
who cares?
Me
Me too
Yeah, me too.
Not so tough now, huh?
Those fingerprint scanners can be defeated with a xerox copy of a fingerprint! …saw it on MythBusters.
Don’t get it… what’s the weird obsession with carbon fiber for pointless applications? Thought everyone outgrew the carbon-fiber stage by 16 (unless in industrial design).
Am I the only one bothered by the lack of craftsmanship on this? Evident in the 2nd and especially the 5th photo. Makes my skin crawl to look at it.
An example that proves the axiom that I tell my students: designs done in an effort to do “something different,” “something new,” or–god forbid–”something cool” run the risk of being (instead) something quite hideous.
Or… as Charles Eames was known to say, “Innovate as a last resort.”
End of rant.
What to charlie? How about a carbon fiber girlfriend!
Where is the peephole?
Carbon Fiber is great for buildings, & bridges,
especially furniture, etc….
There really is a lack of design here – bet this guy has no industrial design background….just Carbon Fiber lying around
We built a similar door for a client in hong kong for 1/10th of the price.
Send us some pictures and info.