Dispatches from the premium, European and outdoor furniture world, design-fair coverage, trend reports, material guides and brand stories.
The Journal covers the business and craft of premium European furniture, with an outdoor accent: news from the major fairs, trend reports, material and buying guides, and editorial brand and designer stories. We publish as the industry moves and point you to the makers, never a checkout.
New dispatches, newest first. More are in preparation under News, Trends, Guides and Brand stories.
Founder Stéphane De Winter's family ran a linen business. That background is why Manutti designs seating around fabric first, then builds the frame to carry it — across teak, aluminum and a solid-surface material borrowed from bathroom fixtures.
Known for the UP armchair and the Charles sofa, B&B Italia has run a serious outdoor program for decades — Mirto, Ayana, Gio and Borea among them — applying the same designers and construction standards to furniture built for the terrace.
Two materials dominate the outdoor furniture houses we cover. Here is what each does well, what it asks of you in upkeep, and where the difference shows on a real terrace.
Born in Milan in 1954 and trained at the Politecnico, Dordoni spent two decades as art director at Roda and designed Bitta for Kettal — a body of outdoor work that ran in parallel with his celebrated interiors practice until his death in August 2023.
From Maia's hand-braided rope to Vimini's wicker reinterpretation — a portrait of the Spanish-Italian designer through the collections she has drawn for the Barcelona house.
What the hand-woven polyethylene behind dozens of Cane-line collections actually is — how the Danish house developed a proprietary outdoor textile, which lines it runs through, and why it outlasts natural rattan.
Founded in 1960 and registered as a teak specialist in Bristol in 1981, Gloster now runs one of the most focused teak operations in outdoor furniture from its own factory on Java, Indonesia.
Rodolfo Dordoni’s rope-and-aluminium Bitta and Patricia Urquiola’s braided Maia — two distinct outdoor design statements from the Spanish house, placed side by side.
The Belgian house's proprietary composite cord — its polyester core, polyolefin outer, and the collections it threads together, from Mood to CTR.
Founded in Gavirate, Lombardy in 1990, Roda was the first house in its sector to name and pursue the IN and OUT idea — indoor quality carried outside. Since 2005, Rodolfo Dordoni has been its art director.
The woven hanging lounger that became an outdoor design icon: how two designers gave Dedon one of its most recognisable pieces in 2011.
An aluminium-and-rope outdoor seating system drawn by Antonio Citterio and presented by the Spanish house Kettal at Salone del Mobile 2025.
A close read of Suro, the French designer's seating line for the Belgian house, built on solid teak or aluminium and braided Trizo rope.
In April 2023 Cassina acquired Zanotta, the maker of Sacco and Mezzadro, folding another icon house into the Haworth Lifestyle Design group.
How the Italian house turned authorized re-editions of Le Corbusier, Perriand and Rietveld into a living archive of modern design.
A close read of Dedon Fiber, the weather-resistant synthetic behind the German house, and the hand-weaving loom culture it built since 1990.
An aluminium-framed terrace collection in recycled and recyclable materials, drawn by Piero Lissoni and presented in Milan in 2021.
The outdoor launches, materials and directions that defined Salone del Mobile 2026 in Milan, framed for the US buyer and specifier.
Materials, silhouettes and the European houses leading each direction.
An evergreen reference on what premium outdoor pieces are made of, and how each weathers.
Industry news, design-fair dispatches (Salone, Milan), trend reports, material and buying guides, and editorial brand and designer stories, focused on premium, European and outdoor design furniture.
We publish as the industry moves, around major fairs, new-collection launches and seasonal trend cycles, and the hub re-sorts newest-first with every new dispatch.
No. This is an editorial journal and curated directory; we do not sell furniture or publish prices. Dispatches point you to the makers so you can find authorised dealers.
The journal is the freshness feed for the directory. Dispatches link out to the brand and designer profiles they mention, while those profiles link back to the latest journal coverage.
Four rubrics: News (launches, fairs, business), Trends (forecasts and reports), Guides (materials, buying, care), and Brand stories (editorial maker and designer profiles).
Yes. We publish dispatches from Salone del Mobile and the broader Milan design week, with a focus on outdoor and premium launches.
Yes. Brand stories and many news dispatches profile specific houses and designers, for example Kettal, Dedon, Roda and Tribu, and link to their full profiles.
Yes. Use the newsletter block to receive new dispatches by email; we use it only for journal updates, with no sales pressure.
Outdoor and terrace design lead our coverage, but the journal also covers broader premium furniture news, fairs, materials and interior-led trends where relevant.
Recent dispatches include our Salone del Mobile 2026 outdoor recap, a Dedon Fiber materials story, and a B&B Italia Borea brand story.
Yes. Dispatches link to the brand and designer profiles they mention, and those profiles link back to the latest journal coverage.
Yes. Every dispatch is free to read online; a printed volume is planned four times a year by pre-order.
While the first dispatches are written, browse the directory and the designers behind these collections.