Italian manufacturer B&B Italia certainly doesn't do things by halves. Their Outdoor 2020 Collection is the lovechild of a stellar collaboration with a triumvirate of veritable design grandees – Antonio Citterio, Philippe Starck and Naoto Fukasawa. If the names are big, so are the brand's aspirations. We're offered, at turns, shape-shifting sofas and armchairs; voluminous, super-upholstered forms that appear to float; and wooden furniture that confidently lays bare its own construction. The unifying thread? A level of consideration that takes outdoor seating into a whole different league. It's the new indoors. |