My Urban Garden Deco Guide

Check out this versatile outdoor design at http://www.skia.de/en/products/camerarius/
 
It was part of the newsletter with 49 other superb shade solutions: from sun sails to shade furniture

However amazing outdoor designs have become, in many cases they are still a twich bulky.
Designers are challenging this with SLIM designs.
Love this LITTLE WHITE SOFA ....brilliant in and oudoors
http://www.christianvivanco.com/furniture/my-little-white-sofa/

Brilliant find by Designophy:

Italian brand Coro presents the new outdoor furniture collection BRANCH by Ilaria Marelli, composed by a sunshade, a family of tables and coffee tables, a chair and two armchairs with high or low backrest.

More at http://www.designophy.com/newslog/design-article-1000001443-coro---branch-outdoor-collection.htm

Brilliant find by Reflexdeco: 'The Shadowy Chair deckchair and Sunny Longer sunbed have shapes that evoke the beach furniture found at the North Sea in Northern Europe in the twenties, become contemporary by the use of digitally drawn colour patterns and woven by expert African craftsmen using coloured plastic threads. The structure is in steel, with a robust shape.

Shadowy has curious ruffles in the end parts, in the armrests and backrest that turn into a parasol cover.

In Sunny Longer the same ruffles become a comfortable headrest. The colored patterns are obtained by the weaving of four colours.

Three versions are offered, one with three tones of green and blue, one with red, orange brown and yellow and the other with brown, white, pink and green.

+Designer Tord Boontje for Moroso'

 

I love the  term 'Architects of shade'...and feel it suits  Atelier Oi , creators of this shade tent, very well !

     

Fellow blogger Rochelle Greayer  has spotted THE ultra cool solar design

' The SunShade has taken the generally poorly executed concept of solar lights for the landscape and revolutionized it. It is a shade by day and a light source at night. Automatically responding to light conditions to make the transformation, these solar powered lights are excellent for a hotel pool area or outdoor restaurant.
Creator, Lianne Genugten describes the design on her website:

The flexible solar cells in the cover of the parasol collect energy from the sun. As the sun goes down the shade transforms into a lampshade and brings light during the night. By means of sensors, the SunShade opens and closes automatically.

Like a mechanical flower, it reacts to day and night.

I wish I could figure out how to upload the little video of the change from garden shade by day to funky landscape lamp by night but I am struggling… so you must visit her site to see the video of the change .'
 

Remember when shade came from a parasol or...a parasol? Designers are really having a great time creating more fun, creative and often individualistic shade solutions. Shade sails started out huge and spectucular and have slowly become very small and mobile.
This new design by CORO is such a great example of this.
You can catch it on line from SABZ

Many of my readers may still see snow from their kitchen window, but I am in Paris and the temperature this morning was March like... That fast forwarded me into spring and I set out to find great shade solutions.
To kick of this series, I have selected designs by Gerald Wurz and Sunsquare.
I love these giant shade sails  because they have the ability to almost create mini outdoor rooms even far away from any proper house. The mechanical side itself is a lovely piece of design.

This design by the Belgian firm Umbrosa is delightfully named  Ingenua.
It offers a variation on the classic shade sail and adds an unprecedented ease of use to it. The best feature is the fact that you alter the height and inclination of the sail between the posts so very easily. More at www.Umbrosa.be
Available in  white, blue or a variety of other colors, square or rectangular.

About UMBROSA
Enjoying the Shade...

Umbrosa presents a complete range of innovative shade creations... flexible parasols, shade sails .. discover our brands Paraflex, Ingenua, Rimbou and Shademakers www.umbrosa.be

In 2008 at the Meuble Paris fair this new shade sail won the jury's vote for Best discovery.
Rimbou's designer Pieter Willemyns has created a totally flexible solution to enjoy the shade. Its design allows one to easily change its orientation to follow the sun. It is easy to set up and dismount. Love it!
By www.Umbrosa.be