Furnishings firm Cassina collaborated with Lancia to design a snug cabin for the carmaker's Ypsilon mannequin, with the automobile's “first desk” within the cockpit and seats upholstered in lush blue velvet.
The Lancia Ypsilon Edizione Limitata Cassina is launched in a restricted variety of 1,906 all-electric automobiles as a tribute to Lancia's founding yr.
Its inside has been designed to reference home areas, incorporating recycled and recyclable supplies in colours that reference Lancia's heritage.
Cassina CEO Luca Fuso informed Dezeen that the collaboration was a “stimulating expertise” that “allowed Cassina to switch its design experience to the automotive sector, creating a brand new method with Lancia, strongly impressed by the comforts of dwelling “.
“Collectively, we now have dropped at life a automobile with a smooth and up to date look, paying excessive consideration to stylistic particulars, inside and outside,” he added.
The Ypsilon mannequin incorporates a number of parts that Lancia and Cassina examined of their Lancia Pu+Ra HPE idea, together with the bizarre tavolino desk.
Described by Cassina because the “first desk” in a automobile's cockpit, the small round desk extends from the dashboard and is made from a bio-based plastic with saddle leather-based upholstery.
It presents cupboard space for small objects and incorporates induction know-how so customers can cost their telephone just by putting it on the floor.
The seats are lined in a comfortable blue velvet created from recycled yarns, which additionally seems on the ground, door panels and dashboard, creating a way of cohesion within the cabin.
The upholstery incorporates a 'cannelloni' sample with ribbing and double stitching meant to evoke Cassina's fashionable furnishings.
The car additionally incorporates new applied sciences to assist drivers and passengers really feel at dwelling, together with a digital interface and infotainment system referred to as SALA, which suggests lounge in Italian, however on this case is an acronym for Sound Air Mild Augmentation.
SALA permits customers to tailor the inside setting and temper of the automobile by adjusting audio, local weather management and lighting features on the contact of a button.
In accordance with Lancia CEO Luca Napolitano, the partnership with Cassina brings collectively two historic Italian firms with a shared imaginative and prescient based mostly on uniting analysis and innovation with respect for custom.
“The Lancia Ypsilon Edizione Limitata Cassina is the last word expression of consolation and design on board, characterised by cutting-edge know-how and connectivity, however at all times easy and intuitive, in good Lancia fashion,” stated Napolitano.
“This outcome was additionally achieved because of the collaboration with Cassina, who along with Centro Stile in Turin designed an actual lounge, impressed by welcoming Italian homes.”
Cassina was based in Meda, Italy in 1927 and was added to the nationwide heritage register of Italy's most prestigious manufacturing firms in 2022. Its assortment consists of furnishings designs by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Philippe Starck and Patricia Urquiola.