Even before the pandemic, an increasing demand for quality has been registered as regards both public and private spaces.  To stay outside, pleasantly, in places designed to live in, not missing the comforts of household spaces. A request that has been accelerated and that has found many new responses. The outdoor gets back to being a reference scenario for designers and companies. But there are brands born around this theme, many years ago, and designers that have been designing to give substance to new forms of conviviality for many years. This is the case of Pedrali and CMP Design, that for eight years has been designing outdoor furniture for the same company.

Multi-purpose spaces, outside and inside
“We realised we need more space, more distances and that we want to occupy also in a different and elegant way, outdoor spaces of our homes, taking care of gardens, balconies and terraces”, says Monica Pedrali, “For our company it is a matter of continuing on a long established pathway; roots of Pedrali lie right in the outdoor world. Our father Mario has in fact began his activity in 1963 producing garden furniture in wrought iron”.
And the International scenario is ready to fulfil the same needs. Even at a global level, this emergency has strengthened the awareness”; maintains Monica Pedrali, “In the future our houses must hold many more functions, and not only inside”. Staying more at home will require the redesigning with new spaces where to work, play, study... we want to stay well, better than over the past few months. And this request will indirectly run in all design sectors: hotels, offices, restaurants and food court”.
“We also imagine further attention to the quality of materials”, concludes Monica Pedrali, “Furniture will need to allow an easy maintenance, tidiness and hygiene, resistance in time also with a constant and prolonged use of specific sanitation cleansers. However this will not limit the experiential and creative strength of Italian companies”.  

Complying with production history
Michele Cazzaniga, Simone Mandelli and Antonio Pagliarulo, the CMP Design, began to work with Pedrali in 2012, presenting the Malmö seat, whose commercial success enabled it to become a family of products. 
But it was with Nolita, outdoor seat, that CMP Design studio got in full harmony with the Heritage of the brand; “In this project we tried to value the company’s quality technologies at the time” tell the designers, “The company had just bought a state-of-the-art machine for bending steel tubes and with Giuseppe Pedrali, who directly follows the development of the products, we decided to design a seat that would embody this production process and at the same time recall the historical production of the company, born fifty years ago, creating its iron chairs for the garden”. 
“During this health emergency, looking at Nolita, we were surprised to realise it was as new as ever” says Simone Mandelli, “The chair is designed thinking of a low use of material, and thus with few surfaces to sanitize”.
Also Nolita has its own system: from the lounge chair to the deck chair, from coffee tables, even the foldable version, to the arm chairs to stools of different heights.
Simone Mandelli continues “It was a matter of allowing the least possible quantity of material to be in touch with the human body, and at the same time, we worked with a comfortable, cosy and ergonomic shape in mind”.
After Nolita, still by CMP Design for Pedrali, is Tribeca, that goes the same road yet moving further, replacing the rigid part of the chair with a flexible material - extruded PVC with nylon inner core-, that hosts the body weight and makes it very comfortable.

Rigorous textile twines and colour
And maintaining continuity, here comes the recent launch of Panarea, the collection including an armchair and a lounge chair, featuring a handmade twine; the wide and comfortable seatback is entwined in a polypropylene rope that, with its original geometry, creates a sophisticate meander and envelops the steel frame tube, covering also the armrests. The stringing synthesizes the minimum number of horizontal steps in order to obtain a double curve that enhances a graphic precision and a three dimension aspect to the seat, in addition to making it lighter and easy to move. For Panarea pillows were made in fabric with a specifically studied yarn, which is the same one used for the seatback stringing. It is not, therefore, a sampling product, but the textile is the substantial part of the seat project.