Summertime, and The Livin’ Is…HOT
With heat advisories lasting well into the evening today, we’re not advocating you spend a whole lot of time outside. However, we shouldn’t allow this summertime heat to completely deprive us of enjoying our outdoor spaces (if you’re so lucky to have one). With that in mind, check out these great outdoor pieces…if you can handle the heat, that is.
3. Heaven Cocktail Table by Emu
4. Bertoia Asymetric Chaise Lounge by Knoll
Stark White
Lonny Blog recently shared their ideas on stark white style. Here’s our round-up of furnishings that fit this trend…
5. Axa chair
The Great Outdoors: The Cantilever Collection
With the weather warming up it’s time to start thinking about heading outdoors. Give your outdoor space an updated look with pieces from Emu’s new Cantilever collection. Designers of this collection, Alessandro Andreucci and Christian Hoisl, combined Emu’s manufacturing tradition with the company’s tradition of experimenting with design. The collaboration resulted in the Cantilever armchair, low armchair, chaise and dining table.
Designer spotlight: Patricia Urquiola
(image via Stylepark)
Born in Spain in 1961, Patricia Urquiola has become very well known over the years for her amazing designs. Urquiola graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid in 1989. Between 1990 and 1992, Patricia was an assistant lecturer at the Politecnico di Milano university and at the E.N.S.C.I. in Paris. From 1990 to 1996, she worked for the new product development office of De Padova and with Vico Magistretti.
Meet Antonietta…
… the newest member of our outdoor seating family. Available in white, aluminum, indian brown or antique iron, the Antonietta side chair would would be great for a small outdoor lounging or dining area.
The Great Outdoors: Re-trouve
We’ve taken a look at two of Emu’s new outdoor furniture collections - Ivy and Heaven. An Italian-based company, Emu is an innovator when it comes to advanced technological processes for metal protection. And the Re-trouve collection is the perfect example of this innovation.
The Great Outdoors: The Ivy Collection
Last week we blogged about Emu’s new Heaven collection. Today we’d like to share another new introduction from Emu - the Ivy Collection. Designed by Paola Navone, this collection is inspired by the art of topiary. The goal was to create “furniture sculptures”, light and minimal, that expose the versatility of metal.
The collection is complete with a sofa, chair and tables- each available in white, orange, light blue or turquoise.
The Great Outdoors: A little piece of ‘Heaven’
It’s a nice day here in the District, so our minds are wandering to the warmer days to come - time at the local pool, relaxing at the beach, restaurant outdoor seating… How many more days until summer?
As we count down the days, we’re going to distract ourselves with all the new pieces from the amazing outdoor furniture company Emu. An Italian-based company, Emu is an innovator when it comes to advanced technological processes for metal protection. The company recently launched a number of new outdoor pieces and we’d like to share a few of them with you over the next couple weeks.
First is the ’Heaven’ collection – complete with dining chair, dining table, lounge chair, side table/ottoman and cocktail table. The collection, designed by Jean-Marie Massaud, features a metal weave achieved through a unique process of weaving and welding. This woven look “gives the furnishings and ethereal lightness and an extreme softness to the volume, making them almost intangible” – hence the name. Check it out!
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