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For his Cabaret collection, Fili-pino designer Kenneth Cobonpue was inspired by a traditional knitting pattern expanded to new materials, weaving fabric tubes into a fiberglass frame. The 18-inch-tall end table shuffles between indoor and outdoor uses.

The brightly colored wheels and joints of Italian designer Rodolfo Dordoni’s lounger, one-half of Kartell’s O/K collection, stand out beneath a minimal aluminum frame and a thin sling mattress.

The long, colored cushions in Ligne Roset’s playful Serpentine chair, designed by French talent Éléonore Nalet, are interwoven over and around a polyester and epoxy lacquer-protected steel frame. The quilted “lumps” are made out of an anti-UV-treated, waterproof acrylic.

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The pattern of Janus et Cie’s lightweight Rion armchair uses the visual motif of the compa-ny’s Forest and Twin side chairs while reducing the amount of material required for production.

Fredrikson Stallard’s aluminum Rimini sunbed for Driade, ref-erencing an abstract modern masterpiece, comes with quick-drying, removable foam cushions.

The high-performance thermo-plastic used for the three-seat sofa in Rodolfo Dordoni’s Kartell O/K collection fits easily along-side the company’s Charles ghost barstools by philippe Starck.

eric Degenhardt’s hook folding side table for Richard Lampert is the perfect complement for his 2010 outdoor In-Out armchair, and its raised hook on the side makes winter storage easy.

Using fibers made from recy-cled packaging, noted brooklyn designer Stephen burks’s Dala collection for Dedon consists of a lounge chair, ottoman, and stool. The fibers give a distinc-tive leather-like texture.

For the Narros cylindrical pouf, part of missoni home’s Ombrel-lini Outdoor collection, Rosita missoni took cues from the nau-tical stripes and outdoor umbrel-las that dot european beaches. 01

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bUILT TOUghBritish architect Sally Mackereth’s debut outdoor

furniture line will stand the test of time.“a lot of architects at some point in their career feel the need to make a piece of furniture,” says London-based architect Sally mackereth of firm wells mackereth. “It’s like an itch you need to scratch.” Last year, mackereth scratched that itch by approaching Stevensons of Norwich, a decorative plasterwork company in england known for fabricating ornamental ceilings, to manufac-ture her first one-off furniture pieces. “I thought, I don’t want froufrou pine-apples and swags, but if I could get that level of detail, I could actually make some really intricate textures,” says mackereth, who took inspiration from the 20th-century modernist architects Richard Neutra and John Lautner, famous for their airy California homes and organic furniture pieces. The resulting range, made by pouring a liquid alloy by hand into plaster molds and then hand-polishing the hardened metal until it achieves an elegant luster, is the monolithic Cast 001 (above). available in shagreen, wood, and plastic-wrap finishes—and weatherized bronze, old gold, and pewter options—the numbered, made-to-order series debuted with a 187-pound table and 75-pound stool at most during milan Design week in april. “It’s not a piece of art or a sculpture,” mackereth says. “It’s a piece to just sit in the landscape.” In the future, mackereth plans to further experiment with the line, perhaps on a much larger scale, and to expand it to other pieces. “I might try a building in it,” she says. “You never know.”–spencer bailey

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Ramón esteve’s podlike Faz day-bed for Spanish brand Vondom looks like a finely cut piece of crystallized quartz when closed; when open, it functions as an out-door bed, protected with a heat-resistant batyline fabric.

The modular Siesta sofa, designed by barcelona trio Lievore altherr molina for andreu world, is fit-ting for a variety of indoor and outdoor arrangements. Its epL-5-treated steel structure is fin-ished in white or brown options.

The Normandie sofa, part of Stefan Diez’s Tropez collec-tion for gandia blasco, is held together and modified via rope and twine combinations that ref-erence sail boats and handmade tennis rackets. The polyurethane foam rubber is covered by water-repellent fabric.

bertjan pot’s oversize Tie-break chair for the new Richard Lam-pert Living Outdoor collection does away with cushions entirely. Its seat is made out of tennis netting, with edges constructed from safety belts.

Inspired by Chinese philosophy, the Chee armchair from Janus et Cie achieves a certain feng shui through horizontal open-ings in its backrest. The sense of lightness is reinforced in its polypropylene frame and cast aluminum and polyamide shell.

Drawing on windsurfing and paragliding, Konstantin grcic’s waver armchair for Vitra is a deliberate departure from con-ventional armchair typology. The foam seat, suspended inside a tubular steel frame, reinforces the illusion of floating on air.

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The thermo-treated ash of the medici chair for mattiazzi, also by grcic and distributed stateside by herman miller, has been heated slowly, crystallizing the wood’s sugars like crème brûlée. The chair is then oiled by hand to seal it for moisture resistance.

when clustered together, L.a.-based phase Design’s architec-tural Skyline planters mimic an abstract cityscape of powder-coated aluminum, and use an elegant, square horizontal bar to outline a spare frame.

expormim’s Nautica hanging chair by Valencia-based mut Design references one of the first objects made by the Spanish company in the ’70s. The rattan chair’s undulating outline uses subtle shadow play to suggest sunlight reflecting off the sur-face of an ocean wave.

The Summertime chair by Slove-nian designer Nika Zupanc comes with seat cushions embroidered with a red-gold trim and anchor stitched into the backrest. The matching table employs Zupanc’s signature crank, a giant winding mechanism on either side that can be used to fold it upright.

Dögg guðmundsdóttir and Rikke Rützou arnved’s Fifty recliner for Ligne Roset is inspired by the Danish duo’s own woolly chair, as well as hans wegner’s Flag halyard recliner from 1950. The backrest and ears use 1,150 feet of mass-dyed, anti-UV-treated polypropylene cord to create an unexpected alliance of minimalist design and warm, hand-woven techniques.

Sway, Richard Frinier’s latest table-and-chair collection for brown Jordan, uses the compa-ny’s proprietary parabolic fabric to evenly distribute weight in the seat while also providing air cir-culation in the backrest.

The metal Vigna chair and table by martino gamper for magis features a climbing plant motif: a wire swirl doubles as a structural feature supporting the chair leg. The seat, made from injection-molded plastic, comes in various two-color combinations.

patricia Urquiola’s husk outdoor armchair and side table for b&b Italia, the follow-ups to last year’s indoor versions, use cushions that allow water to seep through without stagnating. made from recycled and recyclable materi-als, the collection is available in white, black, acid green, orange, and sky blue.

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