Our latest design-led garden furniture

We’re deep in garden furniture mode at Go Modern.  As the weather begins to improve (ahem) and the days get longer it’s all about getting back outside.  Keeping those borders watered and that first cut of the lawn.

And we’ve lots more new and beautiful design-led garden furniture to show you here.  But it’s not just about the aesthetics.  Striking as they are.  Firstly, as with all of our outdoor designs they have to meet our strict criteria for the highest, most robust materials and advanced weather-proofing technology.

Practical AND design-led garden furniture

Some of the prettiest furniture we’ve seen in a while is from one of our newest partners Saba Italia.

Saba Italia are a young Venetian brand where fashion meets furniture meets.  The make exceedingly good, practical designs.  They’ve just produced two new outdoor chairs that are beautifully decorative and quite different from the norm.

Saba is full of Grace

Grace is designed by Paolo Grasselli and it’s an irresistibly dainty design.  That’s becasue it’s created by fusing different sizes of metal rings together so that empty circles clasp cushioned spheres.  This creates a a frame of coloured and transparent ‘bubbles’. The frame and rings are made from lacquered (white or grey) iron. Excitingly, Grace can also be used inside as well as out.

Saba and New York

The beautifully vibrant colours of the New York garden armchairs, by Sergio Bicego for Saba,  are produced in water-proof, quick-drying non-absorbent technical fabric.  For all you techies out there, this has an excellent performance in the Martindale test of up to 90,000 cycles. This guarantees abrasion resistance as well as hygienic ‘breathability’. And there are 13 different  outdoor fabrics to choose from, or you can supply your own. It’s also incredibly comfortable.  Trust us – we sat for a long time on one of these at the recent Milan show. Importantly, the white-painted tubular metal frame is specifically treated for outdoor use.

Missoni Home meets garden furniture

Missoni Home are lauded the world over for their beautiful fabrics.  They’re now producing striking outdoor furniture too.  As you’d expect from this award-winning fashion and accessories company their designs are eye-wateringly good.  And, of course, instantly recognisable.

Their Jalamar sunlounger will attract more than a few admiring glances around the pool. The covers are removable, and offered in  huge choice of Missoni fabrics. For sun lovers, the Jalamar also has a fully adjustable frame.  Due to its clever internal mechanism, this will allow you to capture those rays from any angle.

Sunbrella – weatherproof outdoor fabric

There are an incredible number of stunning outdoor fabrics to choose from this summer. During last year’s London Design Festival, we were joined by Melanie Bernard from the outdoor fabric company Sunbrella .  Melanie took part in a Q & A session with us about the latest trends in furniture and fabrics.

Sunbrella began by producing fabrics for yacht sails.  So they know a thing or two about all-weather material!  They’re now international specialist in fabrics for outdoor furniture and work with all the leading companies in this area.

The best, luxury outdoor fabrics

For the most luxurious, sumptuous outdoor fabric, how about velvet (yes, you read that correctly – velvet!). Belgian specialists Tribù have used velvet for their Nomad garden poufs and they really caught our eye when we saw them at the last Milan show.  Just one word. Stunning!  And they come in seven delicious colours including marine blue, oyster, aqua and the moss colour seen above.

So practical, pretty design-led garden furniture.  Who needs sunshine when you can create your own! Check out all of our latest garden designs here.