Hinoki: screens and partitions to separate “without dividing”

We are learning that in order to return to leaving in peace in shared spaces, for some time, we necessarily must be subject to new rules of social distance to assure everyone’s safety.
At office or in the gym, in a shop or at a restaurant, in the queue at the reception or in the outdoor area of a bar, at the hairdresser or the beauty center, everyone asks for security without having the feeling of being in a fish tank.

MANERBA has developed, in collaboration with Federica Biasi, Hinoki, elements in order to separate without dividing.
A series of screens and dividing partitions, which are freestanding if they are on the ground or hooked to structures if they are applied to a desktop.

Hinoki is a polycarbonate semitransparent panel which is set in a metal structure with a flat freestanding section, on the ground or on castors,  powder coated in several Manerba lacquered finishes in order to chromatically coordinate it with other collections of the catalogue.

The choice of the material, the polycarbonate, is due to its resistance, flexibility and refractoriness to the use, the scratches and the chemical agents.

Hinoki will be made also in other materials such as glass, plexiglass, cork, magnetic board, wood and with the possibility to be upholstered with fabric with sound-absorbing features. It could be customized in the size and personalized with hooks, elastic bands, magnets and moving coat rack.