Ventimesh is the house's specification of a three-dimensional spacer fabric — a knitted textile that holds air the way a leather holds light. Built into the seat, the headliner, the deck panel. Where the hide is the surface, Ventimesh is the lung.
Two knitted faces, held apart by a forest of monofilament springs.
A spacer fabric is not a foam. It does not crush, does not heat, does not store moisture. Air moves through it under load — the cabin breathes, the seat runs cool, the headliner stays soft a decade after it is laid in. Where weight is measured by the gram and runway by the hundred-thousand mile, Ventimesh is the layer that earns its place by giving the leather something the foam could not: an honest exhale.
Two outer knitted faces — one against the upholstery, one against the substrate — joined by a perpendicular field of fine monofilament threads. Under load the threads bow; on release, they recover. The cavity between the two faces is the working volume — the air that travels with the seat.
Thickness is the principal specification. Aeristo carries the textile from four millimetres, for the headliner laminate and the thinnest ventilated seat pan, to forty millimetres, for the deep cushion of a divan seat. Every panel is cut to programme.
Ventimesh sits where the leather cannot — inside the build, doing the unseen work. Four sectors specify it, each for the same reason in different language: keep the climate moving, keep the seat in shape, keep the weight down.
In the seat pan, in the headliner laminate, in the divan: a thin layer of Ventimesh keeps the climate honest at altitude. The cabin pressurises and recirculates; the seat must breathe with it. Where every gram is weighed, a spacer fabric replaces the foam that would otherwise dampen the leather above.
Climate-controlled seating is built on a ventilated substrate — Ventimesh is the channel through which the conditioned air arrives at the perforation. Behind the headliner, it carries the cabin's heat away from the roof; in the bolster, it absorbs the cornering load and returns to shape.
Public seating earns its keep over a decade — and a foam loses its shape long before the leather does. Ventimesh is the cushion that does not flatten: the lobby armchair feels the same in March of year one as in November of year ten. Specified by hotel groups that buy by the floor.
A monofilament polyester does not hold water, does not feed mildew, does not stiffen in the cold of the morning watch. Ventimesh under a marine cushion lets the rain run through and the panel dry through. The seat is dry by lunch.
| Construction | Three-dimensional knitted spacer fabric — two outer faces joined by perpendicular monofilament pile. |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 4 mm – 40 mm · cut to programme |
| Fibre | 100% polyester · mono-material construction · recyclable at end of service. |
| Mesh density | Open to closed surface — adjustable per application. Open for ventilated seating, closed for laminating substrates. |
| Behaviour | Compression-recovery without memory loss. No flattening, no foam migration, no compression-set. |
| Climate | Passive air exchange via pump effect under load. Regulates microclimate beneath the hide. |
| Compliance | Specified to FAR 25.853 (aviation), IMO MED (marine), and the relevant automotive flammability standards on programme. |
| Aliases | Specified as VM in part numbers, paired with the article and colour above. |
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