IN & OUTDOOR

The home pushes the walls of the house to define a new living space: the garden. Just as sophisticated, well-groomed and furnished as the interior, the patio becomes the open-air extension of the house. The choice of textiles, which are increasingly wide and efficient, and the new materials give the outdoor space a real character. The accessories – rugs, cushions, or even outdoor mirrors – make the garden the new living room.

Vibrant shades and soft pastels, geometric patterns and refined plains, smart materials and polished finishes… The world’s leading manufacturer of indoor and outdoor fabrics, Sunbrella, combines design, performance and craftsmanship with sensitivity. Its repertoire includes six eclectic moods – from ethnic Bahia to classic Odyssey – and hundreds of textile references that galvanise interiors and exteriors.

Considering the sanitary context, the garden and the terrace are improvised as resorts and places for staycations (stay + vacation) made to measure. The 50s taste for swings, retro parasols and Miami stripes is recreated. The care given to the outdoors at that time continues to resonate today. In the same spirit, small furniture is being hybridised for the interior. The swimming pool ball with deckchair stripes is now used as an office chair (designed by Goodmoods / Sunbrella fabrics).

The exterior is partitioned like the rooms in the house and each corner has a specific function. The rest areas are adorned with protective domes that provide a feeling of intimacy and rest, while the kitchen area is equipped with screens and pergolas and imitates the spirit of a private restaurant. Cocoons that isolate from the outside world and give a sense of escape.

When the outside is closed off, the inside is opened up. Rooms open up and expand with French windows, bay windows, skylights, portholes or modular partitions. Boundaries are narrowed to allow a corner of the garden to enter. Rattan armchairs, chilianas, hammocks and garden furniture are even invited indoors to create continuity and allow for hyper-flexibility. A need reinforced by current events but which had already begun: in April 2019, 57% of French urbanites wanted to leave the city for the countryside (IFOP).

More than ever, modularity rhymes with desirability. The consumer is looking for hybrid and versatile furniture to embrace the notion of nomadism. Pieces fit together, stack up and create compositions in a design that is in tune with the times. As a reference, these cushions / floorstands, in & outdoor, imagined by Goodmoods.

In general, green space is becoming essential. And the trend has been exacerbated by the pandemic among younger generations: 62% of millennials said that the presence of green space was vital to their mental health during lockdown (AO.com).