R.2Babylon Sofa
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babylon by Varaschin
Babylon 3-seater sofa
sofas · aluminium · Art. 174D3
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.
Materialaluminium
teakaluminiumfabricmetalsolid woodsteel
Colour charts as printed — © Varaschin. Ask the desk for the current season’s card.
As printed227 88 45 75
Width227 cm
Depth88 cm
Height75 cm
Seat height45 cm
Plan, to scale. The bar is 45 cm — about the width of a pair of shoulders.
Custom cushionsMade to order for this frame, in your chosen fabric — commission cushions, or read Cushions & comfort below.
No finish chosen yet. Pick one above and it is kept with the piece — through the shortlist, the workspace schedule and the export.
Full specification
- Materials
- alluminio verniciatofibra sintetica intrecciata a mano
- Material family
- aluminium
- Typology, as supplied
- divano 3 posti / 3-seater sofa
The BABYLON collection, in the book
8 pieces 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. Choose here and the choice stays with the piece — it travels to your shortlist, the workspace schedule and its export.
Frame finish
48 · 3 printed documents · 13 printed pagesThe maker's frame and leg finishes — 48 across 3 printed families.
LACCATI25
METALLI17
Weave
17 · 2 printed documents · 5 printed pagesThe woven rope, printed INTRECCI — 17 colourways. A woven piece carries a rope colour AND a frame finish, and they are specified separately.
INTRECCI17
Seat fabric
412 · 5 printed documents · 82 printed pagesThe maker's cloth library — 412 colours across 53 printed ranges. Choose one and it is kept with the piece, through the shortlist, the workspace schedule and the export.
ABACO15
AFRICA1
ALVEARE8
ANTIGUA6
BATYLINE2
CANVAS15
COLONIALE12
CRISP12
DALÌ16
DUNE8
FIAMMATO4
GAIA8
ICARUS19
INTARSIO3
JAZZ7
JUNGLE4
LINEAR3
LINOSA2
LOPEZ12
LUNA9
MADRAS8
MARINE12
MAYA9
MEDLEY16
MELANGE6
NOBEL8
OSCAR4
PANAMA19
PARTY4
PASHMINA9
PASTEL7
PELLE12
PELLE NABUK4
PELLE TEXTURE4
PERNICE8
PIPER12
PIXEL3
POP9
PURALANA14
PUROLINO10
ROMBO6
SOLEY6
SPIGATO6
SPUGNA4
STRIPES15
SUN7
TRICOT4
VEGETAL11
VOGUE5
Printed colours are approximate — specify against a physical sample. Swatches above are renders of the maker’s own printed cells — 560 of 615 published options carry one.
- 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
Cushion 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 piece is printed in 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 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.
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- Materials
- alluminio verniciato, fibra sintetica intrecciata a mano
- Dimensions
- 205 79 39
- Designer
- Giopato & Coombes
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