Product: Nike Dunk Low Pro SB - Wallenberg
Product Colorway: pine green / sail / light mint
Original Purpose: Basketball / Skateboarding Sneaker
Model: 304292-312
Description:
The Green Hemp SB Dunks are truly created by Bob Kronbauer, an art director from Vancouver, Canada and have nothing to do with St. Patrick's Day what so ever. They're actually inspired by the Wallenberg Palm Tree, a small tree at the foot on the 2nd step with the Large 4 at Raoul Wallenberg Option School in San Francisco. The Wallenberg Palm Tree has played a supporting part in skateboarding given that 1990 and has appeared in many skateboarding videos ever given that.
Below is a notice from Bob Kronbauer which he posted on Mumble giving us all the details we need to know about the sneakers as well as the well-known tree.
"The Palm Tree at the foot of the 2nd step of the Big 4 at Raoul Wallenberg Alternative School in San Francisco has played a supporting role in skateboarding since 1990. My Nike SB Dunk Low colorway is inspired by this little tree’s “Twenty Year Anniversary” in 2010/2011. Throughout the mid 90’s the tree made in appearance in most of the best skate videos of the era. Dudes were getting tech using the bottom stair as a low ledge and the second stair as a high ledge. The tree grew. In the early 2000’s people started hucking themselves down the 4, pulling tricks that would have been impressive down the first stair ten years earlier. Over the decade the tree has grown larger, like the skating going on around it. The colorway draws a palette from the palm tree itself while utilizing hemp for the Swoosh. The white midsole represents the step and has a visible “waxed ledge” around the top of it, just like that step at Wallenberg. Lastly, the insoles each contain a pixelated image of the palm tree itself, giving a nod to all of the times it has appeared in skate videos over the years."
