Tensioned fabric "barrel vault" roofing structure on Jim's Phuket condo roof-top Installation - like most of our structures, this one was built and "pre-installed" at Shades' Phuket factory and installed in a "quck and clean" bolt-together operation free of on-site cutting, welding or painting.
Installation team at work
The roof
Tensioning corner plate
Views to Rawai and Chalong Bay
Shade is a must for kids playgrounds. Bud’s Nursery & Kindergarten School in Chalong, Phuket, opened it’s new school campus this week, complete with two custom-designed shade sails by Shades
Shades sails at Bud's Nursery & Kindergarten, Phuket
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.
Embroidered logo
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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