Piece of Fabulous Friday – Dismount Washer

Yanko Design is fast becoming a favorite site of mine for finding unique design concepts, I found this week’s piece of fabulous after perusing their site.  A word of warning before you get too excited about this, it’s just a concept but what a concept it is.  So here’s the deal, Electrolux, (the maker of household appliances that Kelly Ripa dances around in those commercials reminiscent of the fifties) created a contest for industrial design students.  The challenge was to come up with efficient space saving household appliances that could be used in urban dwellings in the year 2050.  After receiving hundreds of submissions they picked the top 8.  While all of the designs are innovative and downright cool, the one that caught my (and Yanko Design’s) eye was the Dismount Washer.

Designed by an industrial design student from China - Lichen Guo, the dismount washer is  a portable, personal clothes washer.  The design is such that it can be hung on a wall or easily transported.  Here’s the idea, instead of using a bulky space consuming washing machine, use the Dismount Washer to clean your clothes anywhere there is an “energy stick”.  What’s an energy stick?  Well it is the attachment that provides the steam to wash your clothes.  With a touch screen control panel at the end, the energy stick is installed on a wall.  To actually get your clothes clean you would attach the Dismount Washer to the ”energy stick”, use the touch screen display to adjust the wash settings and voila! you’re washing clothes.

The two things I really like about this design?  First and foremost the amount of space that’s saved (although one thing that’s not mentioned is how many clothes the washer can clean in one cycle), it would be great if I could make some more room in my laundry area.  Second, I don’t know much about water and energy consumption but I do know that usually when the appliance is smaller it requires less energy to run.  That being said, and considering this machine was designed with the future in mind, this seems to be an economical and energy efficient piece of equipment.

Special thanks to Yanko Design for writing about this design and good luck to Lichen Guo!  To see the top 8 designs from the contest check out the video below.

What do you think about the design?  Would you buy one if they were being manufactured today?  Let us know in the comments.