Anyone still struggling to find a place for Milan Furniture Fair might be pleased to hear about Hotello. The concept – a 4-sq-m rapidly deployable hotel room that fits into a trunk – has been devised by Roberto de Luca and Antonio Scarponi for Swiss company Das Konzept.
The room consists of a metal frame and two curtains, one translucent and the other sound-absorbing. The designers imagine the rooms being used in empty city centre lofts. The trunk contains everything you need for a short stay; a desk, a lamp, a stool, a shelf and a locker. It can be arranged in different configurations.
It looks like a lot of fun, but Das Konzept has a serious aim too – to investigate flexibility and acoustics in the work environment. Bord, a second project designed by Charles O. Job, is a cork workstation that can also be used as a meeting table or office partition.
You can see Hotello and Bord at Fabbrica del Vapore, via Giulio Procaccini 4, during Milan Design Week.
Hotello by Roberto de Luca and Antonio Scarponi for Das Konzept

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