Design iPad and tablet holder: The perfect gift

The padô design iPad and tablet holder is the stylish way to enjoy reading, writing, listening and watching on your tablet and your smartphone. Having your hands free while reading emails, newspapers, magazines, websites, using apps, writing and surfing totally changes your user experience. Your device is positioned at an angle of 22 degrees – the optimum position for tablets and smartphones while sitting and standing. Designer Viktor Breuer created an elegant design object that adds style and elegance to your living and office environment. Most available tablet and smartphone stands and covers either lack style or stability. While great solutions exist for mobile padô is designed to enhance your user experience at home and in the office.

Each padô is entirely handmade in the German Black Forest with carefully selected top quality wood from sustainable resources. The wood grain varies on each padô making every item a unique natural masterpiece. Smartphones or tablets rest on a fine strip of thin leather: A natural and elegant solution to protect your device from scratches.

Tablets are often used in living rooms, Home offices, kitchens and even in the bathroom. The design team and lead designer Viktor Breuer wanted a stand that would match the natural beauty of home interiors. While the materials of tablets like the iPad Air or the iPad mini have a seamless professional feel the designer wanted to add warmth, elegance and style that matches the surfaces and materials used at home. Wood and leather as natural components should perfectly enhance the experience.

More than 130 prototypes were created to find the right size and the perfect angle for the tablet. The final design is a combination of more than 80 overlay curves. While the designers started on 3D and CAD applications it soon became clear that a truly organic shape has to be developed with a combination of hand drawings and handmade prototypes.

Six types of precious woods were selected with several trials of oil and lacquer finishes. Walnut, Cherry, Oak and Beechwood from sustainable resources proved best in terms of visual quality and durability. To match the perfect shape the wood has to be worked in several ways – most of it by hand. A traditional wood workshop in the black forest and seven Germany was the ideal partner from the start. Most people assume that nowadays pretty much every thing can be manufactured by a machine, using state-of-the-art CNC machines or printing. It soon turned out that the subtlety of the shape proved so complicated that the machine would take much longer than the skilled craftsmen. Thus padô remains a handmade product.

Great attention was given to the actual positioning of the tablet on the stand. A strip of fine leather perfectly protects the tablet and adds to the stylish and elegant overall feel of the product. Each strip of leather is selected according to the distinct wood grain of each padô – they all differ slightly. It is then manually applied and cut with precision.