Home game: B&B Italia

Like many of us, B&B Italia Artistic Director Piero Lissoni spent more time than usual at home last year. From his countryside retreat in Tuscany, he took the opportunity to contemplate his personal desires for an outdoor furniture collection.

His desires came to life in B&B Italia’s new 2021 Borea collection. The modern range of outdoor seats and tables featuring lightweight aluminium structures, Sicilian lava stone tabletops, and generous upholstery, brings together comfort, colours, and functionality – all inspired by Lissoni’s most familiar Italian natural setting.

B&B Italia joined Lissoni in Tuscany to explore the collection in the new catalogue and video which presented a unique opportunity for Lissoni to personally tell its story, in the very setting it was imagined for.

On Lissoni’s terrace by the pool, surrounded by the rolling landscape, we experience the colours of Borea’s palette. Uplifting and natural tones across the collection feature sage green, earth tones of clay and anthracite, meet cool ocean blues and dove grey.

Capturing the carefree lifestyle of Italy, upholstery fabrics with ‘deckchair’ stripes are freely combined with thinner maritime-inspired stripes and solid colours. Coloured profiles are available in white, blue, grey, aquamarine green and red, to bring sharp definition.

It is a privilege to see Lissoni firsthand, leaning back into the comfortable cushions that are soft and relaxing – he shows us how the Borea collection feels, and how it can come to life. After all, the collection has been tested by Lissoni himself – a quality control like none other.

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