Concorde's interior designer framed by Parrot
PARROT HAS launched a range of LCD digital frames, designed by the acclaimed French designer Andrée Putman.
The frames are created by the leading lady of French design, with a black and white toned themed approach keeping with her style sought-after worldwide from New York to Tokyo.
"I would like to pay tribute to Parrot for daring to think that this wonder of technology could be coiled up inside a beautiful wrapping," gushed Andrée Putman
Parrot/Putman Digital Photo Frame
"The Parrot frame by Andrée Putman is the first in a series of artistic dedications for our range of wireless audiovisual products,"said Henri Seydoux, CEO and founder of Parrot.
The Parrot frames are all Bluetooth 2.0 enabled, for easy image transference from mobile phones straight to the digital frame without a single wire. They also take advantage of the frame's multiplicity of connections for uploading photos from an SD card or via mini USB cable.
The interface inspired by Andrée Putman's minimalist design also allows the photos to be managed intuitively, from the LCD 15-cm 262,144 colour screen.
These frames automatically resize the photos to fit the screen, along with rotating them too whenever the angle is changed.
Despite the stylish look, the screens lacki Wi-Fi functionality as seen in similar devices.
The Parrot digital photo frames by Andrée Putman will be available at first exclusively fewandfar.net in London from June 2008, with a £249.99 price tag (Cough! Ed.) µ
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Fah. Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen could have designed a frame just as ugly as this for half the commission. Expect this to appear on Graham Norton's desk within a week.
I´ve always wondered about these features. What happens if you would benefit from being able to view the image upside down? It just seems like a weird feature to add, as if people need help to orient their screens.

If I have a book or magazine, and it´s upside down, it doesn´t take a whole heck of a lot of effort to just flip the thing over.
In my view the black and white aesthetic is now dated, it's a one trick pony, it's 1970's. I wonder what is the big deal over this frame? At this price!How can she claim to be against elitism in so many interviews and present this basic item at this price? I can buy a digital frame for little money and place it on a black and white box too, and I wouldn't add a tacky signature on the front of mine. What is the design here? I don't see it.