La Cabina
La Cabina
How do restaurants and cafes open up their premises to the public in a way that brings confidence that you’re only taking home a bill and a full stomach? The summer is here and Mediterranean resorts want to open up in a safe way. Verona based manufacturer Equilibri and London design company Viewport Studio has come up with a solution that is simple, cost effective and can still have an application in the post-pandemic world.
La Cabina is paradoxically an inclusive separator, suitable for both indoor and outdoor purposes, developed for restaurants, bars and public parks to allow people to feel confident about dining out. | La Cabina | is the result of a collaboration between Trussardi, i-Mesh, Viewport Studio and Equilibri.
This solution plays on physically distancing the customers, in group of 2 – 4, using a simple modular frame system with hanging clear or semi opaque materials to create small protected booths, with or without a canopy roof, that can butt against each other.
The design is intended for the period after lockdown but before a vaccine is in place. The waterproof and flame proof fabric prevents the free flow of the airborne virus but can be easily removed and washed.
Designed by Viewport Studio, an award – winning London-based design studio, and made with the cutting-edge, sustainable textile i-Mesh, | La Cabina | is a one-of -a-kind solution that intertwines functionality and aesthetics.
The versatility of the everlasting, high-performance fibres of i-Mesh and the light steel structure produced by Equilibri, a production company based in Verona, allows for an easy set up and for even easier transport. | La Cabina | is durable and not disposable, fully customisable and good both for outdoors and indoors, while maintaining renewable, recyclable and truly circular material.
The frame of La Cabina is simple and can be shipped flat-packed for economy.
In September this year, the product will be launched at The Trussardi Alla Scala Restaurant in the cultural hub of Milan, which represents the perfect location to showcase a groundbreaking technical innovation and an eye for sleek design that seamlessly embodies the spirit of the Trussardi brand. The customised | La Cabina | will interpret the trademark discrete luxury of Trussardi, naturally and effortlessly elegant, instinctively Italian and international by vocation.