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Bathco at Salone del Mobile

Lucio Traficante

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JURY VOTES
Trade-Fair Stand
4.42
5.14
4.52
4.84
4.73
Lara Francis El Hani
Lara Francis El Hani Senior Manager Interior Design – Head of Department at Kling Consult
3.77
3.2
3.2
4.33
3.63
Shamsudin Kerimov
Shamsudin Kerimov Founder at Kerimov Architects
4.63
3.77
4.16
4.84
4.35
Agata Kurzela
Agata Kurzela Founder and Design Director at Agata Kurzela Studio
5
6
5
7
5.75
Alex Mok
Alex Mok Cofounder at Linehouse
4
5
4
3.5
4.13
Anette Skeie
Anette Skeie Head of Design at Norco Interior
4.8
5.9
5
5
5.18
Louisa Fan
Louisa Fan Director of Design Luxury and Lifestyle Brand at IHG ® Hotels & Resorts
4.2
4
4
4
4.05
Mireia Luzarraga
Mireia Luzarraga Cofounder at TAKK
5.71
5.98
5.66
5
5.59
Javier Guzman
Javier Guzman Cofounder at Zooco Estudio
3.85
4.25
4.81
3.13
4.01
Leali Ezzat
Leali Ezzat Founder and Design Director at ELE Interior
4.25
5.3
5.7
5
5.06
Lori Ferriss
Lori Ferriss Executive Director at Built Buildings Lab
4.57
6.31
5
6.23
5.53
Jukka Halminen
Jukka Halminen Founder and Creative Director at Design Office Koko3
3.94
6.75
3.3
5.42
4.85
Rahul Bansal
Rahul Bansal Architect at group dca
5
5
5
5
5
Vineeta Singhania Sharma
Vineeta Singhania Sharma Founder at Confluence
4
6
5
5
5
Allen Zhou
Allen Zhou Founder at Shengtang Shijia Design Studio
5.31
5
4.98
5.73
5.26
Arianna Bavuso
Arianna Bavuso Cofounder at AB+AC Architects
4
5
4
4
4.25
Ziwei Guo
Ziwei Guo Founder and Director at Pure Design
4
5
4
5
4.5
Yang Yan
Yang Yan Founder and Chief Architect at y.ad studio
4.13
5
4.05
4.05
4.31
Client
Bathco
Floor area
160 ㎡
Completion
2024
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Sanitary

The design of the environments in which we live has a notable influence on our senses, emotions, decisions, and, therefore, our quality of life. Aware of these implications, the design of a stand can be quite a challenge, especially if we put ourselves in the shoes of the visitor, who walks for hours through the fair, visiting one space after the other, and who arrives overwhelmed, exhausted, and with his stimuli saturated at the end of the day.

Innovation
Inspired by the desire to provide a more human experience, the idea for this year’s Bathco stand was to create some kind of “oasis” or “forest” within the fair: a diaphanous microclimate with calm colors whose tour would absorb the visitor and abstract him, even if it is for a few minutes, from the vertigo and hustle that surrounds the general exhibition. A space where he can feel comfortable and find the calm or serenity necessary to enjoy the experience. A space that allows him to lower his heart rate and connect with the environment: a space that he wants to look at, touch, taste, and feel. In other words, a space to enjoy.

Creativity & Functionality
The result is a composition of curves and counter-curves that intertwine in an eloquent dialogue to generate a diaphanous and dynamic environment of semi-open and translucent spaces that stand like a wild forest with leafy vegetation crossed by a flowing path that, like life itself, has an organic course without a beginning or even an end.

The transparencies confer depth and perspective to the stand while providing a certain aura of privacy to each environment without falling into the exclusivity of closed spaces. They are areas that are partially “closed” to shelter those who visit them, but at the same time they are "opened,” inviting those who wish to visit them.

Sustainability
Aware of the environmental situation in which our planet finds itself, the stand has been designed with natural and sustainable materials, trying to avoid plastics, metals, chemicals, and other elements that are not reusable or harmful to the environment.
Furthermore, as if this were not enough, the entire space has been designed in order to generate almost zero waste once the fair has ended. Thus, the stand is made up mostly of display elements, such as pedestals and space structures, which have been designed with a “second life” to be reused later in the company's sales points.

In this way, Bathco remains faithful to its daily commitment to finding and working with sustainable solutions that are in tune with our planet's environment.