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Alcantara wall lining

Alcantara S.p.A. · Italy

Reference swatch — labelled stand-in pending close-up photography.

Technique
Alcantara suede-like microfibre, transposed from Ferrari car-interior application to retail wall lining
Family
textile
First appearance
Issue 01 · ferrari-london
Supplier / fabricator
Alcantara S.p.A. · Italy
Lead time
Unavailable from public sources
Cost band
Unavailable from public sources
Fire rating
Unavailable from public sources

Source Alcantara S.p.A.

Editor note

Alcantara — the microfibre material Ferrari specifies across its car interiors — applied as wall lining across sections of Ferrari Style London. The material argument is cross-context transposition: a car-interior material operating in retail, carrying the Maranello-workshop cue without showing any of the cars themselves. Ferrari Style's Alcantara wall lining is the clearest example of the project's reference-through-haptic-material logic — instead of displaying vehicles, the space invokes them through the tactile vocabulary customers already associate with Ferrari ownership. Paired with hand-brushed stainless steel perimeter, concrete flooring, Rosso Ferrari accents, and mirror-brown staircase casing. Alcantara contract-grade is commercially available through Alcantara S.p.A.'s contract division (alcantara.com), with UK trade through Altfield (London) as the documented distributor; the application at Ferrari London register is bespoke (custom dyeing, wall-scale installation).

Specification notes

  • Alcantara S.p.A. microfibre material
  • Car-interior material transposed to retail wall application
  • Softest material in Ferrari London palette
  • Reference-through-haptic-material rather than vehicle display

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