Timeless high-end Indoor & Outdoor furniture

Autumn is here, the beginning of a new season. Life withdraws from gardens, pools and terraces to warmer indoor spaces. Yet the pleasure of coming together stays the same. Gathering around a fire to share stories, maybe some food, maybe a beverage, is something as old as time. Now contemporary dining tables replace fire and take centre stage.

During 3daysofdesign, the Ruby Atelier Gallery hosted “The Intimate Side of Art”, a creative design exhibition between Openhouse and Expormim that reflected on the noteworthiness of having a space to develop our identity as creators, what Virginia Woolf called ‘A Room of One’s Own’.

Identity, culture express themselves in many different ways. Design, for instance, is one of them. Design may be a universal language, but each design speaks its own particular dialect tightly linked to the people, the place, the time, the context where the idea was first born and materialised.

Sometimes the past is so contemporary. Expormim has gone to those days with the intention to recover the first Lapala woven chair, the original, so typical of the Mediterranean.

Obi is the latest sofa collection designed by Ludovica+Roberto Palomba. As a tribute to Japanese culture, Obi takes one of Japan’s most famous traditional garments, the kimono, and turns it into its key element.

Simple objects are often so highly engineered that you might struggle to recognize their constituent parts. In 2014, London’s Design Museum dedicated a thought-provoking exhibition to these processes.