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Poltrona Frau
The Secret Garden Collection
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Boundless Living 2021 Outdoor Collections
The Secret Garden Collection
The Secret Garden
Collection
Designer
Roberto Lazzeroni
The Secret Garden conjures up hidden beauties of the senses
and inner life. It reminisces of a private, intimate and reserved
place. A familiar place to savour the luxury of time in total
comfort. Roberto Lazzeroni presents a collection marked
by elegance and attention to detail, drawing a trait d’union
between Scandinavian design, the beginnings of Italian
furnishing design and the unique manufacturing skills
of Poltrona Frau. Hints at cultural references which, through
the gentle nature of proportions and the expressive immediacy
of the collection, are capable of striking a dialogue with
the most diverse settings.
The Secret Garden is elegant and refi ned, characterised
by solid teak with a natural fi nish here presented in slender
structures, expressing solid but lightweight features. Designed
to address specifi c types of use: the relaxation area with
loungers and side tables; the lunch area with its table and
comfortable chairs with armrests; the lounge and dining area
for more informal gatherings, sitting on the two-seater canapé
or on the small armchairs with armrests and equipped with a
special table with a large top (180cm x 80cm) at a lower height
(63cm). With this solution, the collection responds to changing
needs and customs and, above all, to a freer and less restricted
use of furnishings. For new ways of living that suggest a new
collection of objects.
The Secret Garden is a collection full of unspoken, but subtle
and masterfully orchestrated details that reveal themselves
upon closer inspection. Such as the exquisite workmanship and
curved shapes of the wooden sections, obtained from a long
and painstaking process of dimensioning, or the perfection
of the joints and the tactile silkiness of the material.
Or the particular lenticular shape of the seats and loungers,
recognisable in the design and more evident in the loungers,
with tapering lines to give organicity and movement to the
geometries. A level of quality and manufacturing complexity
rarely found in outdoor furniture.
The discreet forms of the collection echo some of the motifs
of outdoor furniture such as weaving, refl ected here in the
backrests with two-toned, diagonally structured, hand-woven,
fl at cotton webbing that is cleverly inserted into the wooden
section. The Mediterranean tradition of ceramic tops is
represented by the refi ned combination of green/light blue or
greige tones in the hand-fi nished glazed stoneware upholstery
of the tables. Stoneware is used in the dining table in large
mosaic tiles, framed by teak as if in a work of art.
The coverings of upholstered sections benefi t from a wide
choice of plain or patterned fabrics, with a palette ranging from
chalk to terracotta and mahogany colours, and from a more
nautical blue to the greens of Mediterranean plants. These are
fabrics with material textures and a soft “feel” reminiscent of
indoor materials. The cushions are soft, simply resting on the
backrests for more relaxed comfort and with perimeter “piping”
that echoes the typical lines of leather upholstery.
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