Hidden Doorknob Ensures Privacy
Posted in Cool by Dan at 4:41 pm
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Screw the “Do Not Disturb” sign with the disappearing doorknob. “Doorknob Condition” designed by designer Arnaud Lapierre hopes to eliminate the possibility that room service will accidentally “surprise” you when you are on a trip. You simply pull the doorknob on the inside of the room, recessing it so it can’t be grabbed or turned.
Pretty cool, until some jackass (like me) comes along while you’re away and pushes it in, then you’re stuck outside of your room.
@Thomas J Brown, I am pretty sure they will make it so that you can push it in from the outside(just put a button on the inside room part of the door knob and you need to depress hte botton whilst pulling on the door knob beofre it reccesses the other end of the door knob) and that the door will need to be locked before the knob can be recessed
Someone’ll find a way to open it. It’s how the world works.
well of course your keycard would pop the knob open it’s not a high security vault guys it’s just a door knob thats a little more obvious hint that “maids heed warning I want not your freshly starched sheets and illustrious clean towels”
although it would be fun to mess with your friends and stuff with a design like this.
*knock knock*
me – “Come in”
poor bastard – “What?… I can’t, there is no knob”
me – “Are you on crack… if there is no knob how did I get in here?!… now stop being foolish and come in, it’s unlocked”
@Killeroid – Yes, obviously. See how I was joking?
@Chad – See previous line.
Like I posted in the http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/07/26/the-doorknob-signal/#comment-2166 thread:
This doorknob is not ADA compliant, so it could never be used in a hotel, motel or other commercial application. Additionally, the fire department would take exception to a device like this being used in buildings they are required to protect. What an unbelievably short-sighted design.
@ Drew
Since when do doorknobs have to be ADA complient in other countries other than the US? I suppose the US is the only place in the world you will find doorknobs right?!? And As far as the fire department… hmm how to they get into a locked building? No difference… bust it down if they dont have a master key.
What an unbeilevably short sighted posting
Re: Jeff
ADA compliance laws, although based in the US at the moment, are universal in their affect on design. The building codes in the United States have driven and influenced the development of the IBC, and now that the IBC is being adopted as model code in the United States (coming full circle), the ADA’s influence on the code will become much more universal.
I suggest that your stance should be in the spirit of compliance rather than in defense of a design that is blatantly non-compliant not only now in the USA, but in the near future internationally.
The best part…the maids don’t have to speak/read English that they shouldn’t enter…