By Elemento Living
South Florida asks more of an outdoor space than almost anywhere else. Salt air, relentless sun, sudden storms, and a year-round outdoor season mean that furniture here is not decoration. It is architecture that has to perform. The brands a designer specifies for a Miami Beach terrace or a Naples courtyard determine whether a space still looks considered in five years, or simply looks tired.
At Elemento Living, the portfolio is built around that standard. From our Miami Beach showroom, we bring together a curated group of the world’s most respected outdoor furniture houses, ateliers, and material suppliers, then pair them with in-house design and procurement so a space is realized as a whole rather than assembled piece by piece. This is an introduction to the houses we carry and the thinking behind the collection.
A through line connects much of our portfolio: a Mediterranean and Northern European sensibility translated for the South Florida climate. Gandia Blasco, founded in Valencia in 1941, brings an architectural, distinctly Spanish point of view to outdoor furniture and rugs. Vincent Sheppard, from Spiere in Belgium, is known for relaxed woven craftsmanship that carries warmth from interior to terrace. TODUS, designed in the Czech Republic and manufactured in Slovakia, represents modern European minimalism built for long service life.
Portugal is well represented through MyFace Outdoor Design, a house from Santo Tirso producing resort caliber lounge and dining collections, and GANSK from Barcelos, whose sculptural pieces blur the line between furniture and object. SNOC, based in Istanbul, contributes a Mediterranean, resort inspired language suited to both residential terraces and hospitality settings.
In this climate, shade is not an accessory. Tuuci, born in Miami in 1998, engineers marine grade shade structures that hold their own as architectural elements, with the durability to match the environment that created them. We treat shade strategy as part of the layout from the first concept, not a problem solved at the end.
Planting and sculpture have become central to how serious outdoor spaces read. Domani, designed in Antwerp and handcrafted in Europe since 1992, produces sculptural planters and pottery that function as landscape elements. MAZU, a young Belgian house from Knokke, builds architectural planters with integrated LED lighting, turning greenery into a lit, sculptural feature after dark.
What distinguishes the collection is not only the names on it. It is the way the brands are deployed. Elemento Living works alongside homeowners, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, developers, and builders to plan complete environments, layout, materials, furnishings, shade, and lighting, as one cohesive vision. Through the Design Collective, our trade community, design professionals gain access to these brands at trade pricing, along with specification support, showroom access, and an industry network backed by the project history of parent company CPS Outdoors.
The pages that follow look at each house in depth, the regions we serve from Miami to Naples to Palm Beach, and the questions designers face when specifying for the South Florida climate. Consider this the doorway in.
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