Alcantara wall lining
Alcantara S.p.A. · Italy
Phase 1 interim swatch — photography pending.
- 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
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, the Alcantara is the softest register in the palette — the material that makes the space feel closer to fashion couture than garage workshop. Alcantara is commercially available; 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