25-May-2009
Christophe Pillet’s Round series of outdoor furniture is part of the Emu Advanced Collection. According to the designer, ‘there is something that is often difficult to find in outdoor furniture, and it is precisely those things that I have tried to express in the collection: simplicity, timelessness and a touch of distant elegance’. The items are distinctive and innovative, but never intrusive.
The Round collection of outdoor furniture includes stacking chair, stacking bar stools, tables, a lounge chair and a dry bar table.
Emu Group S.p.A., is an Italian company that has become the international symbol for outdoor furniture Made in Italy. LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy), the most important luxury group in the world, became the major shareholder of Emu in October 2005. In 2007, thanks to the creative inspiration of great international designers, the company created a new identity for metal, putting the most extensive know-how in the world into the production process. Metal is reborn in the form of outdoor furniture , leaving its coldness and stiffness behind, dressing the collections in a new way, emphasizing the soft, sinuous lines of the Advanced creations with a new gracefulness and plasticity. Steel is worked like a precious fabric and acquires the quality of a strong emotional added value. Jean-Marie Massaud, Christophe Pillet, Rodolfo Dordoni and now, Patricia Urquiola choose metal for interpreting creations that go beyond an exclusively outdoor use and are equally well-suited for the home or the garden. The company gives a new dignity to metal used in outdoor furniture, exploiting its natural properties of flexibility, lightness and strength, enhancing elegance through the exclusive design of its products.
The brand Emu has bcome synonomous with quality outdoor furniture globally and now in Australia.