This year Paola Lenti celebrates its 20th anniversary of business activities, and reaffirms its’ personal vision of outdoor and indoor living –  focused on a philosophy of functional, elegant, simple and long lasting furniture.

She again presented her collection at the monastic retreat – Chiostri dell’Umanitaria. with the theme  of IL COLORE DEI LUOGHI  =  ” The Colours of Place “

Turning the pages of  Paola Lenti’s catalogue, is like discovering balanced and essential new design landscapes where opposites become complementary: past and present, interior and exterior, tradition and technology.

Once again, creativity and quality are the outcomes of a genuine effort, energetic approach, collective efforts and constant attention to detail.

The importance that designer Paola Lenti has always attributed to “beauty” (intended as the totality of its forms of expression ) has led her to a meticulous choice of materials, resistant and yet environmentally friendly and to a unique colour palette.

This is a result of continuous aesthetic research and of the interpretation of colour, as focus of the visual space; a vivifying and balanced bond between nature and product.

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You can find a serene coexistence of seemingly diverse influences: where metal and wood structures are designed to be durable; where modern and comfortable interiors seating live side by side with the newest solutions for exteriors; where elegant hand-crocheted floral rugs are created with high-tech yarns.

Each design attributes its originality to the selection and creation of the material and to the simplicity of its forms. The pieces are created to be timeless in terms of quality, functionality, colour and aesthetics

Paola Lenti’s exterior Aqua Collection comprises modular sofas, sun beds, umbrellas, platforms, poufs, armchairs, chairs, tables and rugs which allow for the creation of complete yet harmonious leisure areas for relaxing in the exteriors.

The nobility and quality of the materials and the level of craftsmanship used in production make Aqua Collection pieces ideally suited for the creation of informally elegant spaces as well as for interiors

The Design Week is also an opportunity for Paola Lenti to look back on the production over those past 20 years, on furniture pieces that have had and still have the ambition to preserve and enhance through the years their harmony and their intrinsic value.

Paola Lenti translates this approach into each of her 2014 collection products, like Welcome, Canvas, Island, Frame and Orlando, classics that this year are proposed in original combinations with ottomans and side tables and with new upholstery fabrics, testifying their ever lasting value and their unexpected and always renewed qualities.

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Portofino folding chairs  – by Vincent Van Duysen

This original seating series consists of a chair with armrest, a deck chair, an armchair and a pouf with folding structure made of locust hardwood; the removable cover is available in several fabrics for the exterior in the collection.

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Bistro Sunshade – by Paola Lenti

For the exterior, Paola Lenti introduces Bistrò, closable sunshades available in either a flat or a dome-like version.

The sunshades can be completed by the Clique series, poufs and side tables available in different dimensions.

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Cabane

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Welcome Jolly

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Resort Sun Shade Structures

Designed by Fattorini+Rizzini+Partners, the Resort system for the exterior combines high tech steel and aluminium elements, purposely conceived with the simplicity and lightness of the design

These pure form shade sail cloths, can be set side by side or assembled to create large protected spaces, highlight the qualities of the new Paola Lenti signature fabrics for the exterior.

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Pool and Spa areas

Orlando

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Parkland areas

Mogambo Sunshades

For the exterior, Paola Lenti introduces Mogambo, a fixed sunshade, with feature hand woven covers.

The sunshades can be completed by the Clique series, poufs and side tables available in different dimensions.

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Frame Combination

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Canvas

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Vertical Gardens

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Fabrics and rugs by CRS Paola Lenti

The design and production of signature fabrics, the attention devoted to the technological evolution of materials, the value credited to handicraft techniques have always been the most recognizable features of a collection of furniture and rugs which have become, over the years, true reference points for the eclectic universe of outdoor furniture.

For exterior environment the rug Time is loom woven with yarns in three different colours

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Materials 2014

Paola Lenti thanks the following collaborators that cooperated in the realization of the event “Il colore dei luoghi”.

Cleaf, surfaces for design

Davide Groppi, indoor and outdoor lighting

Mycore, roller blinds and home automation

Oikos, colours and materials for the architecture

Piscine Laghetto, pool and spa