Trends 2017: decorating ideas for your outdoor spaces

External spaces turning into little islands of domestic happiness: 2017 outdoor trends propose four different styles all extremely captivating. You will love to spend our spare time en plein air, surrounding by refined comfortable design furnishings that will make you feel on holiday.

Essential lines, simplicity and natural colours will be the true protagonists of your outdoor spaces, the idea is to create an intimate and elegant setting, without renouncing functionality and with a particular attention to the quality of materials.

Four styles, four ways of interpreting summer, four visions to give shape to your open spaces according to tastes and personal needs. Modern, romantic, innovative or old: choose the one is right for you!

A sober and material charm characterize the modern outdoor furniture. Solid structures made of wood, iron and aluminium, combined with upholstered seats with cold colours, are able to create a sophisticated and contemporary atmosphere. As you can see in the Kokoon hammock, designed by Olivier Le Pensec for Royal Botania, in which the sturdy structure in teak meets the Batyline fabric. Its unique design gives space a touch of elegance, ensuring absolute relax. 

Your outdoor dinners will have a special taste thanks to the Meridien table by Ethimo, realized in aluminium with a teak top, standing out for its clean lines and capacity of adapting to every space. Also the armchairs from the same collection are perfect for a refined and dynamic outdoor.

Bright colours, pastel tones, soft and light fabrics: the romantic-chic style evokes dreaming atmosphere where spending pleasant evenings with tranquillity. Fresh and comfortable, the Haven sofa, realized by Claesson Koivisto Rune for Paola Lenti, invites to lie on soft cushions, embraced by a steel frame, covered in net. The exclusive fabric, produced by Paola Lenti, is weather resistant.

If you love nature, you could embellish your external spaces with wonderful ornamental plants inserted in a beautiful vase with simple shape. The Screen-Pot, signed by Francois Clerc for De Castelli, is made of COR-TEN, iron and stainless Aisi 304.

A floating sofa like a swing, protagonist of veranda or terrace: SwingUs 2 seater sofa is part of a seating collection produced with care to details. Designed by Daniel Pouzet and Jean Marie Massaud for Dedon, inspired by the icon Nestrest, the SwingUs sofa is a unique element because of its cup shape, ideal to accommodate more persons.

The innovative style gives importance to the originality of materials with a sophisticated design and cutting-edge solutions. Woven alloy of materials such as rattan, wicker, polyrattan give birth to seats with linear shapes, but extremely resistant.

Hundreds of woven cords create the Ama hammock by Ok Design. Not only a place to relax, but also a gorgeous decorative element for your garden.

A name which remembers the sunny scenarios of Mexico and atmospheres of the 50s, the Acapulco chair is a design icon that never goes out of fashion, handmade in plastic coated string on a powder-painted metal structure.

The Dusche shower, designed by Danny Velnet and produced by Viteo, offers you a unique experience: a platform turning on when you step in, emanating a water jet that moves from borders towards the centre. An innovative system with a refined design.

The last one among outdoor trends 2017, vintage style evoking the 70’s with its geometrical motifs and explosion of colours. A light, ironic and playful design. The Tropicalia daybed, designed by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso, is a steel sofa with woven colourful strings, polyurethane foam mattress and polyester fiber cushions.

In a perfect match, the Reii outdoor pouf, signed by Bibi Seck e Ayse Birsel, with a steel structure and handmade woven polyethylene ropes. Eccentric taste and bright colours: Reii is part of the M’Afrique collection, inspired by fishing nets.

The Palissade collection, designed by Ronan ed Erwan Bouroullec for Hay, it will be love at first sight with its old fascination. Tables, benches, seats and sofas for decorating garden, terraces and balconies with a timeless elegance.

Give free expression to your creativity and turn your outdoor into a forge of multiform combinations for spaces with a strong personality and unique style.

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