{"id":8345,"date":"2026-05-22T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:09:09","slug":"quadrodesign-sends-salone-booth-to-zambia-to-become-public-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/quadrodesign-sends-salone-booth-to-zambia-to-become-public-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":"QuadroDesign sends Salone booth to Zambia to become public bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"QuadroDesign<\/div>\n

The Salone del Mobile<\/a> fair stand of Italian tapware brand QuadroDesign is on its way to Masala, Zambia<\/a>, having been designed by Giacomo Moor to have a second life as a public bathroom<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The stand will be transformed into a permanent piece of architecture, providing what QuadroDesign<\/a> says will be the area’s first public bathroom.<\/p>\n

The bathroom will have changing rooms, toilets and showers complete with plumbing components and tapware by QuadroDesign, as well as a medical clinic. It will serve the women who work in the Masala charcoal market, often accompanied by their children.<\/p>\n

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The QuadroDesign booth was designed for disassembly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

QuadroDesign commissioned Milanese design firm Studio Giacomo Moor<\/a> to develop the structure for this year’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair, asking that it be modular and reversible in line with the company’s ambitions to cut down on waste from design week exhibits.<\/p>\n

The collaborators also worked with Koalisation<\/a>, an Italian company that develops community projects in Zambia, to identify a second purpose for the system and facilitate its transportation and installation there after the event.<\/p>\n

“The idea of approaching Salone del Mobile with a project of this kind stems from a very simple \u2013 and in some ways uncomfortable \u2013 observation: most temporary brand architectures during design week are not sustainable, neither environmentally nor ethically,” said QuadroDesign co-founder Enrico Magistro.<\/p>\n

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The components will be reused to build a public bathroom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Every year, complex and highly scenic stands are built, often beautiful, that last only a few days and, once the fair is over, turn into waste,” he added.<\/p>\n

Magistro said that the company had aimed to counter this phenomenon over the last few years with stands that eschewed cladding and scenography and were largely reusable, but they wanted to be more ambitious in 2026.<\/p>\n

Enlisting Moor for the design, they envisioned a modular construction system capable of being easily assembled and disassembled and of being adapted to different spatial configurations and future uses.<\/p>\n

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The wooden framework is held together with aluminium connectors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moor developed a system with a timber frame held together by specially designed four-way aluminium connectors.<\/p>\n

The wooden posts and beams are each composed of multiple squared mini-posts, creating a lattice shape that the aluminium joints can be held in to extend the framework in four directions.<\/p>\n

This structure gives an elegant appearance, while also creating an empty cavity where wooden panels, sliding doors or other functional elements like lighting can be inserted.<\/p>\n