Check out our “Sundowner” model – a fabric sala perfect for so many applications. At Club Tropical, in Bang Tao, Phuket, their sales outlet venue found one of those uses as reception seating areas for clients.
Three of Shades' "Sundowner" fabric shade structures at Bang Tao, Phuket
We ship these anywhere in easy-to-install kits. Contact us or email to info@shadesasia.com for more information and colour/fabric options.
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Our client’s brand new villa lacked one thing – a shady place to relax by the pool on those hot sunny Phuket afternoons.
“Please, for Christmas” was the request, and within 2 weeks we delivered. From first measure, through design, fabrication and installation.
"All I want for Christmas is" ... some shade!
"All I want for Christmas is" ... some shade!
At the 2011 Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) “Expo Americas” in Baltimore, USA, Shades was awarded the top honour “Award of Excellence” for our “Phuket Sunset” fabric sala design.
This is our second IFAI award – in 2009 our free-standing poolside shade structure won an “Outstanding Achievement Award”.
Outside of China & Japan, Shades is the only company in Asia to have been honoured with an IFAI Achievment Award.
….. here’s the IFIA news release: (click here for the IFAI web announcement)
Roseville, Minn.– Oct. 26, 2011) – Shades (Thailand) Co., Ltd, Phuket, Thailand, was recognized with the 2011 International Achievement Award (IAA) presented by the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) for its exceptional specialty fabric project.
Shades (Thailand) Co., Ltd received an AWARD OF EXCELLENCE for its “Villa Sala” project. The project was recognized in the competition’s Freestanding Structures category.
Selected from 385 entries from 16 different countries, these winners represent many of today’s top professionals in the specialty fabrics industry. Entries in 33 categories were judged by a diverse panel of industry experts, editors, architects, educators and design professionals selected for their knowledge of the particular category of competition. Judging was based on complexity, design, workmanship, uniqueness and function.
For more than six decades, IAA has recognized excellence in design and innovation, highlighting truly spectacular work in the specialty fabrics industry. The goal of IAA is to promote awareness of the specialty fabrics used in thousands of products and applications ranging in size and type. The International Achievement Awards competition is sponsored by IFAI, a not-for-profit trade association whose 2,000 member companies represent the international specialty fabrics marketplace.
The award ceremony took place at IFAI Expo Americas 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland, at the annual trade event on 26 October 2011. IFAI Expo is the largest specialty fabrics trade show in the Americas.
And here’s the award winning sala – the “Phuket Sunset” in teak, 316 grade stainless steel, and architectural PVC, now being developed as a standard product (3 x 3 metres at column base).
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Back to basics! Our client wanted a patio awning to blend with his stunning Spanish-design home in Phuket’s Boat Lagoon Marina. We thought about all the yacht covers we have done in our early days at Shades, and came up with what we think is a most suitable adaption of that “marine look” for this marina house.
We chose Sunbrella woven acrylic as a long-lasting tensionable fabric in a colour to provide some light translucency and to blend with the all-white house. White marine epoxy painted rafters and beams helped with the theme. White is white, but for that real marina touch, we added a contrast (our specialty): a stained redwood timber column with white base and top caps, and 316 garde stainless steel fittings.
A marina house, the maritime look and feel!
Did it work?
“It’s fantastic” says the client.
Sunbrella acrylic tensioned over steel & hardwood frame - perfect match!
Stained hardwood column provides required support for the awning frame
At SHADES we specialize in high quality 316 grade stainless steel work not only for the rigging components of our tensioned fabric structures but for architectural applications where quality and beauty are paramount requirements, as they are at Laguna Lofts Condominiums’ roof-top swimming pools, here in Phuket.
Marine grade stainless steel pool balustrade at Laguna
316 grade stainless steel balustrade at Laguna
