7 April, 2009

Brighten up your summer with a fresh, clean outdoor furniture

Finally it's spring! The wonderful Swedish summer is also in the offing and therefore it may be worthwhile to brush up on the balcony or patio with a couple of new furniture. We therefore intend to look at some of the Nordic companies with summer furniture that specialty. Scanian Harborough is one of Scandinavia's largest manufacturer of garden furniture and has some interesting creations, including furniture Group Miami that is made of wood type teak. Just teak is an ideal material for furniture to be outdoors, because the wood is saturated by its own oil when it reaches an advanced age. This process causes the durability increases markedly and the furniture can be left outdoors for a long time without the material will be particularly affected.

Miami of Harborlite

KWA from Knäred is one of the veterans on the garden furniture. For more than 60 years they have made garden furniture, and they can really do this with quality and care for their furniture. Why not turn to their garden chair Belmondo, combining materials teak, aluminum and textiline? They also have a fashionable and comfortable sofa in eucalyptus which they have named Jessica. Perfect for a beautiful midsummer party on the terrace in good company.

The Danish company Fast Design sells cheeky Italian furniture, and we looked more closely at their Forest series. Forest is a series of outdoor furniture where you break down the boundaries between art and design, without for that matter would be sacrificing quality and convenience. The series consists of an armchair, a lounge chair without armrests and a dinner table in different designs. Head ideologues behind Forest named Robby and Francesca Cantarutti and they've succeeded in creating artistic and aesthetic furniture. See, for example, for almost reminiscent of a ghostly fairy forest with its hollow pattern (it's no coincidence that the series is called just Forest).

If you rather prefer wicker furniture may be able to furniture group Alabama to be something with his black weather resistant synthetic material, which is also UV resistant. This may well be appropriate if there are many hours of sunshine in the summer (which we of course hope that we can use our summer furniture as much as possible!) When we're on the wicker furniture should Laholm-based Mellby Garden mention, their creations Rattan is truly a sight to behold. It may anyway be good to know the difference between rattan and ordinary cane. Art Rattan withstand namely the weather very well, while ordinary cane had better not be exposed to rain, but thrives best in conservatories that have some sort of roof or glazing.

Alabama of Harborlite

If you are looking for more exclusive and luxurious outdoor furniture, you can instead check out Mellby Gardens Limited Collection. This is a series of outdoor furniture that was manufactured in limited edition and we here at Nordic Furniture can only say that the Limited Collection offers some real delights. We thought we'd finally mention Hultarps Outdoor furniture manufacturing furniture in a variety of materials. In particular, their position chair Andy who is made of aluminum is very cool, but they also have other strings to his bow so it might be worth taking a look at their website.