Varaschin
Italian outdoor collections in aluminium, steel and teak — 87 collections, 687 pieces indexed.
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Babylon 3-seater sofa
sofas & settees · aluminium · Ref vr-babylon-3-seater-sofa
When we approached this project we actually had a clear idea, not about the shape but about its function. Christopher and I love spending summer nights looking at the stars, maybe because this reminds us about sailing nights. The brief from which we started was that of a sofa to observe the sky during starry nights.
Giopato & Coombes on the BABYLON collection as a whole — not a description of this piece.
MADE TO ORDERShips from Italy · 12–16 weeks door-to-door
Materialaluminium
teakaluminiumfabricmetalsolid woodsteel
As printed227 88 45 75
Width227 cm
Depth88 cm
Height75 cm
Seat height 45 cm
Custom cushionsMade to order for this frame, in your chosen fabric — commission cushions, or read Cushions & comfort below.
Full specification
- Materials
- alluminio verniciatofibra sintetica intrecciata a mano
- Material family
- aluminium
- Fabric
- —
- Cushion code
- —
- Customer's own material
- —
- Typology, as supplied
- divano 3 posti / 3-seater sofa
- Features
- —
- Handling & storage
- Not stated on this piece’s record — which is not the same as ruled out. Ask us and we will confirm with the factory.
- Working height
- No bar or counter working height on this piece’s record.
- Record notes
- printed 250-251. Unlabelled line drawing; the sofa photographed on the same spread.
The BABYLON collection, in the book
8 pieces indexed across 9 spreads (reader pp. 127–135). Credited to Giopato & Coombes.
The book prints one finish system for the whole range — 31 finishes across 12 printed families.
This is the house palette, keyed to the range rather than to this piece: it is what the book says the collections can be finished in, not a stock list. Which finish this piece is built in is confirmed on the technical sheet.
Frame — gamba / legAlluminio verniciato a polveri5
The structure powder-coat, with the RAL reference the maker prints against each colour.
BiancoRAL 9003
Grigio setaRAL 7044
GrigioRAL 7022
MokaRAL 8022
NeroRAL 9005- cinque colori dell'intreccio EMMA CROSS / EMMA CROSS weave, 5 colours
- corda intreccio EMMA, due toni / EMMA cords, two standard tones
- 6 colori della struttura EMMA SUNSCREEN / 6 colours of the EMMA SUNSCREEN structure
- colorazioni bianco e nero TIBIDABO / TIBIDABO black and white colorings
- struttura bianco / WHITE STRUCTURE
- struttura grigio seta / SILK GREY STRUCTURE
- struttura grigio / GREY STRUCTURE
- alluminio verniciato bianco / white powder-coated aluminium
- GRIGIO / GREY
- TAUPE / TAUPE
- BRONZO / BRONZE
- BEIGE/BIANCO / BEIGE-WHITE
- GRIGIO / GREY
- TORTORA / TAUPE
- BRONZO/TABACCO / BRONZE-TOBACCO
- OTTANIO/BRONZO / TEAL-BRONZE
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO moka / dark brown
- CERAMIC / CERAMICA grey porphyry / porfido grigio
- HPL corten
- IROKO
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO bronze / bronzo
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO grey / grigio
- CERAMIC / CERAMICA lime white / bianco calce
- TEAK
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO silk grey / grigio seta
- HPL bedonia
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO Black / nero
- HPL cement / cemento
- HPL silk grey / grigio seta
- CERAMIC / CERAMICA dark stone / grigio scuro
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO white / bianco
Colour charts as printed — © Varaschin. Ask the desk for the current season’s card.
Printed colours are approximate — specify against a physical sample.
The finish plates, in the bookCushion thickness is deck arithmetic, not a style choice: the maker builds the bare frame deck low or high knowing what will sit on it, and the cushion is the remainder to a comfortable finished seat. That is why a dining pad runs thin and deep seating runs thick — neither is an upgrade on the other.
- For a sofas or settee
- 10–15 cm seat · 12–15 cm back — always separate cushions rather than one slab, so each panel drains and turns on its own.
- Core
- Exposed pieces take an open-cell, fast-draining (reticulated) core: water passes straight through instead of pooling in the foam. A crowned profile sheds standing water by geometry. Neither makes a cushion waterproof — outdoor builds drain, they do not seal.
- Fabric
- Outdoor cloth earns its keep in the fibre. Solution-dyed yarn carries its pigment all the way through the fibre, so colour survives sun and scrubbing; surface-dyed cloth wears its colour off. Performance fabrics are water-resistant rather than waterproof, and mildew grows on dirt sitting on the cloth, not in the fibre itself — which is why the published care is washing, drying and standing a soaked cushion on edge to drain.
- Patterns & your own fabric
- Fabrics and patterns are fully specifiable — plains, stripes and prints, with repeat, direction and railroading captured in the brief so a pattern lands straight on every panel. Many pieces also accept customer’s own material (C.O.M.) — the brief asks rather than assumes.
As the maker dimensions it
Commission custom cushionsWhere Varaschin publishes a cushion thickness, it prints on the product sheet’s own elevation: TIBIDABO sofa 14 cm over a 28 cm deck, BABYLON sofa 15 cm, CRICKET settee 9 cm on a sculpted shell, TIBIDABO dining armchair 8 cm. Most sheets print seat height only — where no figure is printed, none is claimed here.
Made to order through our supplier workshops — sized to this frame, in your chosen fabric, from a thin dining pad to a full deep-seating build.
Technical sheet issued on request, per piece.
Sheets are issued per piece against the current supplier revision, so the drawing you receive matches what will be built, not an older press.
Request technical sheetThis record was indexed from LANDSCAPES 2021/2022, reader p. 127 (printed 250–251).
The book is on the site in full — open the page this piece is printed on. The book and every page of it remain © Varaschin.
Open the page in the readerPlan and elevation are generated from the verified dimensions on this page.
- MODELLO REGISTRATO / REGISTERED MODEL
- Registered-design notice printed at the foot of the collection description on the openers of EMMA (render p004), EMMA CROSS (p031), EMMA SUNSCREEN (p046), TIBIDABO (p051), SUMMER SET (p095), CRICKET (p110), BABYLON (p127), SYSTEM STAR (p136), SYSTEM (p144), BARCODE (p155) and BALI (p163). NOT printed on the BELT opener (render p073) — BELT is the one collection in part 1 whose opener carries no registered-model line.
- teak di piantagione certificata / certified plantation teak
- Timber sourcing claim printed on the SYSTEM opener (render p144, for the optional teak bench seat), the BARCODE opener (p155, whole collection) and the BALI opener (p163, whole collection). Printed wording: "teak di piantagione certificata" / "plantation certified solid teak" / "solid teak wood from certified plantation". No certification scheme or certificate number is printed.
- soluzioni d'arredo / MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS (BELT)
- BELT carries two configuration-reference spreads, render p089 (printed 174-175) and render p093 (printed 182-183). Each prints eight plan-view sofa layouts labelled /01 to /08. NO article codes and NO dimensions are printed on either spread — they are layout inspiration only, not a parts list.
- MODELLO REGISTRATO / REGISTERED MODEL
- Registration statement printed on the technical spreads of BALI BERGÈRE DECK RELAX, NOSS, CLEVER, LINK, LAPIS, BENTO, PLINTO, BAHIA, MAAT and KOLONAKI. SMART instead prints 'MATERIALE REGISTRATO / REGISTERED MATERIAL' (referring to VAR#TEX, not the model).
- LINK extendable mechanism
- Dedicated spread 'link allungabile / EXTENDABLE TABLE' (printed 404-405) showing the 200x100 H73 in three states: closed 200, one 55 cm leaf to 255, two 55 cm leaves to 310. The photo captions are printed '200 mm / 255 mm / 310 mm' — evidently centimetres given the icons and the rest of the catalogue; recorded as printed, not corrected.
- BENTO composition rules
- 'soluzioni d'arredo / MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS' (printed 470-471): nine worked composition diagrams labelled /01 to /09 built from the seven BENTO modules. The prose states the customer may re-arrange purchased modules repeatedly and add further modules later, 'rispettando semplicemente le regole di composizione / following the possible options available'. Caption: 'DIVANO BENTO - TAVOLINO BELT - PANCA SYSTEM'.
- CARPET material specification
- 'Tappeti per esterno realizzati con fibre sintetiche, non-assorbenti e altamente resistenti all'azione degli agenti atmosferici. 100% Polipropilene / Outdoor carpet in synthetic fibers, non absorbent and highly resistant to bad weather. 100% Polypropelene' (spelling as printed).
- TRAMA material specification
- 'Coperta per esterno con lavorazione maglia rasata. Composizione 100% Olyna. / Outdoor knitted blanket made of 100% Olyna.' Size 170x120 cm, five printed colourways.
- COVER — protective covers programme
- Custom-made covers cut to the ordered sofa composition and produced at the same time as the sofa. 100% polyester, 180 g/m2, light grey, one side coated with acrylic resin, Teflon stain-repellent and oil/water-repellent treatment. Tested to UNI EN 20811 (water permeability): water column greater than 1000 mm.
From the care & technical pages of LANDSCAPES 2021/2022 — the maker’s own text.
- Brand
- Varaschin · Italy
- Collection
- babylon
- Designer
- Giopato & Coombes
- Category
- Sofas & settees
- Status
- Current range
- Certifications
- None recorded
- Suited to
- Hotels & Resorts · Workplace
- Reference
- The book prints no article code for this piece; the reference below is our own index key, stated as such.
- Name, as printed
- The book shows this piece as an unlabelled line drawing; the name shown is our own index label.
- Our reference
- vr-babylon-3-seater-sofa
Giopato & Coombes
No portrait of this designer is held on file, so the panel carries the initials instead of a borrowed likeness.
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