News! Go Modern x Urban Roof Gardens

Urban roof gardens – and some late summer outdoor furniture news from us (yes folks… summer’s not over yet!).

We are delighted to be helping the talented crew over at Urban Roof Gardens, Europe’s leading roof terrace designers, with their forthcoming show garden at Design Junction 2018. 

Design Junction

Design Junction is a curated exhibition of the latest cutting-edge design. The event is part of the London Design Festival and takes place across three venues on the South Bank.  We absolutely love the South Bank.  It’s a fabulous part of our exciting city, with hundreds of international brands, boutique shops, tons of outdoor installations.  Along with delicious pop-up eateries and bars it’s got one of the best views up and down the River Thames that you’ll find anywhere in this part of town. There’s also the Globe Theatre within spitting distance, along with Tate Modern and, just over the Millennium Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s definitely a place where you feel history is slap bang up against modern, urban living.

Urban Roof Gardens

Urban Roof Gardens approached us a few weeks ago about using some of our outdoor furniture as part of their Design Junction project.  They felt it would fit perfectly with their contemporary designs, which will showcase a series of modern roof terrace gardens.

The URG roof gardens will be arranged across a series of hexagon shapes.  Each space demonstrating different combinations of flooring, furniture and fittings.  Also on show will also be the company’s unique LiveProduct range – a ‘best-in-class’ collection of LiveWall, LiveRoof and LivePicture.

Urban Roof Gardens Plan
Urban Roof Gardens Plan

Because we don’t have any images yet (watch this space) we’ve included the plan above which gives you an idea of what to expect.  There will be spaces for ‘Urban Greening’, a ‘Creative’ space, and a space for ‘Cooking and Eating’.  Also an intriguingly entitled ‘Tropical Bubble’ space. Hawaiian shirts not compulsory!

Coin Street

The installation will be located in the Coin Street Builders Court Yard behind the South Bank’s famous OXO Tower.  For those of you who don’t know it, this great building has been a riverside landmark since the 1930s.  Owned in its prime by the makers of OXO, its uses have been quite varied since then. It was majorly done up in the 1990s and is now home to a great mixture of flats, design studios, galleries, specialist shops, restaurants cafes and bars. Well worth a visit at any time of year just to mooch around the shops or simply soak up the fantastic atmosphere.

Go Modern’s Outdoor Furniture

Go Modern’s outdoor furniture includes pieces from internationally renowned outdoor furniture designers Manutti and Tribu.  These are two of our go-to specialists. Some of their designs are made for super-yachts and top hotels as well as gardens and terraces around the world.

Tribu Nodi Outdoor Chairs
Tribu Nodi Outdoor Chairs

So look out for some of their incredible designs.  Noteworthy pieces will include:

Nodi armchairs

The Nodi garden armchair, designed by the highly regarded Canadian creatives, George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, for Tribu.

The Nodi chairs are supremely light and comfortable.  Firstly, the seats and backrests are in hand-woven, stain-repellent, frost, UV and mould resistant CanaxÆ rope, which is stretched across a powder-coated stainless steel frame. Then the slim profile arm is angled slightly inward because the designers wanted to create a design with a ‘welcoming gesture’.

Napoli garden bar table

From our other Belgian specialists Manutti, the elegant Napoli garden bar table will be put to good use.  It’s sturdy enough for commercial and domestic use, and comes in two sizes with a wide range of finishes.  The top and the base is offered in a hard-wearing, scratch-proof ceramic.  And if a round rather than square top is what you’re looking for it comes in that too.

Manutti Napoli Bar Table
Manutti Napoli Bar Table

Tosca garden dining chairs

Another Tribu range is Tosca and the Tosca garden dining chairs, designed by the hugely talented Monica Armani.  These chairs feature super soft but firm over-sized braiding that wraps around the powder-coated stainless steel frame. It’s an eye-catching look.  For those interested in the techy stuff, that clever shape is achieved by using a new foam mousse, contained in a seamless sheath of knitted textilene and polyolefine for greater weather resistance. The cushions can be covered in a variety of water and stain repellent fabrics, which now includes garden suitable velvet.

Tribu Tosca outdoor dining chairs

Tribu Tosca outdoor dining chairs

Branch bistro table

Likewise,  look out for Tribu’s Branch round bistro dining table, designed by Altherr Lievore Molina.  The shape was inspired by the form of tree branches, beautifully fluid and organic, created to reflect our natural environment. But behind the elegant and simple table is a complex combination of materials. The frame is made from die cast aluminium, powder-coated twice to create a scratch and UV resistant finish. Aluminium is a superb material for outdoor designs; easy to clean and weather resistant.  The Branch design also comes in three colours: white, linen, or wenge.

Tribu Branch round bistro table
Tribu Branch round bistro table

For the Branch table top you can choose from a variety of weather resistant garden suitable materials including Aluminium, A-grade Teak, or Granite, and there are three different sizes available.

Zendo corner sofa

Another Manutti piece, and on it’s second ‘designer project’ outing of the year, is our Manutti Zendo modular corner sofa.  Becasue its just so easy on the eye and comfortable, it’s one of Go modern’s most popular outdoor designs .  it’s also incredibly hard-wearing. We have one on Go Modern’s small outdoor terrace at the Kings Road showroom and we find that once a customer sits down on it, they tend to stay for a while!

Manutti Zendo modular outdoor corner sofa
Manutti Zendo modular outdoor corner sofa

So do pop along to the show it is in a public open space.  It’s on from the 20th to the 23rd September.  Architects, designers and product specialists from Urban Roof Gardens will be on hand to answer any questions.  Maybe this will be the start of your own urban ‘green space in the sky’ dream!

You can register to attend here (simply because the URG crew would quite like to know who they might meet and when!) :

https://www.thedesignjunction.co.uk/en/tickets.html

One of the Go Modern team will also be on hand some of the time too and happy to answer any questions you might have about outdoor furniture (or you could try them on other topics… they’re a super friendly bunch!).  Happy green dreaming!