Gruppo SimetDelta AscensoriTurin, Prato
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The walnut cabin with the backlit button and the Simet plate

Bespoke cabins

No standard blocks, only your drawing

For architecture practices and clients who will not accept a catalogue cabin: sizes, materials, light and details decided at the table, made in our workshop in Turin.

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The point

The cabin is the smallest room in the building and the one everyone passes through.

In a showroom, a hotel, a villa, the lift is the first interior people touch. A catalogue lining in that room says more than the architect would like.

That is why we work with practices from the preliminary drawing. We measure the shaft, you draw the cabin: walls, floor, ceiling, handrail, control panel. We bring the technical limits, the material samples and the workshop that fits them.

There are no predefined blocks. A cabin 1,870 millimetres wide with a stone back wall and a burnished brass door is a workshop drawing, not a special request.

The worked brass doors of a lift in a historic building
Brass, stone, timber: the building's materials come into the cabin.

Compose the cabin

Four choices, and the cabin changes in front of you

Walls, floor, light and handrail. A sketch to start the conversation: the real finishes run into dozens and are seen on samples.

Walls
Floor
Light
Handrail

Your cabin: Black walnutBrushed steelBurnished bronzeWhite lacquerPale stone, Pale stoneBlack graniteOakBlack rubber, Warm, 3000 KNeutral, 4000 K, BrassStainless steel.

The colours of the sketch are sampled from our films and are no substitute for samples. Many more combinations exist: RAL lacquers, mirrors, back-painted glass, leather.

Materials

What the workshop makes

  • 01
    An empty lift cabin with a pale lining and soft light

    Timber

    Walnut, oak, teak and lacquers on class 1 fire-rated panels. Book-matched veneers, as in a piece of furniture.

    fire class 1
  • 02
    Detail of an architectural floor plan

    Stone and ceramic

    Marble, granite and thin porcelain stoneware bonded to a lightweight backing, so as not to steal load from the cabin.

    6 mm thick
  • 03
    The worked brass doors of a lift

    Metal

    Brushed, satin or PVD-coloured stainless steel, brass and burnished bronze. Control panels and frames in the same metal as the walls.

    steel, brass, bronze
  • 04
    Glass lifts in a modern atrium with plants

    Glass

    Laminated safety glass, clear, low-iron or back-painted. For panoramic lifts the shaft structure is drawn together with the cabin.

    laminated 8+8
  • 05
    A hand presses a button on a cabin control panel

    Light and controls

    Backlit ceilings, wall light slots, steel or brass buttons with engraved numbers. Colour temperature chosen with the rest of the building.

    3000 or 4000 K

With the practice

Four meetings, one lift

  1. Architects discuss drawings around a table
    01

    The brief

    The building project, the shaft, the people who will use the lift. We bring the technical limits and the first alternatives.

  2. An architect sketches by hand over technical drawings
    02

    Samples

    Real materials on the table, set against your palette. The preliminary cabin drawing comes out of this.

  3. Two professionals in front of a three-dimensional model
    03

    Detailed design

    Scaled workshop drawings, technical sheets, paperwork. You sign, we manufacture.

  4. A finished lift cabin in soft light
    04

    Handover

    Fitting with protection in place, inspection, and a walk-through together once the works are finished, for your portfolio photographs.

The glass lift in the spiral staircase of the historic palazzo

Historic buildings

Inside an eighteenth-century staircase

Self-supporting structure, laminated glass, no load on the masonry. The heritage office is convinced by the drawing, not by the catalogue.

Questions

Before you write

Do you work to the architect's specification?

Yes, and it is how we prefer to work. We receive the drawing, check it against code and shaft constraints, and return the detailed design. The aesthetic signature stays with the practice.

How much extra does a bespoke cabin cost?

Compared with a series cabin, between 20 and 60 per cent of the cabin cost, which in turn is a quarter of the lift. On a 45,000 euro lift that is 3,000 to 6,000 euros more: the quote lists it item by item.

Can our practice publish the work in its brochures?

Yes. Once the lift is handed over we take the photographs together and give you the drawings as vector files. We do not publish your client's name without their consent.

Other systems

What else we do

Bring us the drawing

A plan with the shaft and a palette are enough for the first meeting.

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