Blog Design Playlist
By Clément Bommel - October 23, 2009
‘Doorknob condition’ by ‘Arnaud Lapierre’ is a smart way to indicate the usage status of a room. It allows you to pull on the knob from inside the room to retract the outside door knob flush with the door!
Easily imaginable in hotel rooms, or any public but individual spaces to replace the usual sign we all know ‘do not disturb’, often taking form as a tie around the doorknob. This concept takes privacy one step further with an innovating pulley system that makes the external knob disappear (it retracts to lie flush with the door panel) when pulled from the inside… And without a knob, there is no way to open the door! It is also a strong visual information; you don’t have to look for the red status anymore… If there is a knob, take it as an invitation and use it, but If there is no knob, you are probably not welcome!
