A Miami brand, designing for the climate it lives in.
Pavilion has been crafting contemporary outdoor furniture from its Miami headquarters for more than thirty years. The brand serves the premium hospitality, contract, and residential markets with collections engineered for sun, salt, and humidity, named after the neighborhoods that shape the city`s sensibility, and built to the commercial-grade standards demanded by the specifiers who work in the most challenging outdoor environment in the country.
The Verdena collection extends that practice into a quieter register. Restrained aluminum frames, minimalist proportions, sling fabric available in over twenty colorways from earthen neutrals to oceanic tones. The silhouette reads as residential, the construction performs as contract.
Pavilion.
A Miami practice that builds for the climate Elemento specifies into every day.
Via @pavilionusa
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Glass brick was never decoration. It was always architecture.
First specified by modernists in the 1920s, refined by Pierre Chareau at Maison de Verre, and brought back into the architectural mainstream by Renzo Piano at Maison Hermès Tokyo, glass brick has always been a serious material misread as a decorative one.
Its properties are structural before they are visual.
Waterproof.
Load-bearing in many applications.
Translucent without being transparent.
Resistant to humidity, salt, and the corrosive environments that defeat most other partitioning materials. Which is why the most considered architects have always specified it where water and light have to coexist. Pool walls. Outdoor showers. Spa enclosures. Wet rooms exposed to weather.
What it gives back is rhythm. A glass brick wall is a built field of light, refracting the day across a surface that pretends to be solid. The partition is not transparent. It is something rarer. It is a wall that is also a luminaire.
Material Intelligence, on the materials that earn their place by doing more than one thing well.
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The place comes first.
Then the architecture answers.
In the Brazilian Amazon, Neiva Arquitetura built a residence around a principle rather than a footprint.
The site dictated everything that followed.
The structure rises in two volumes. A concrete plinth grounded against the rainforest floor, a lighter upper floor wrapped in slatted hardwood that filters light and lets the canopy pass through. Between them, the pool reflects the palms back at the architecture. Around them, the forest continues uninterrupted.
There is no view to capture here, because the house was not positioned to take one. There is only the place itself, and a house that has agreed to listen.
By Design, on the residential work that begins where most architecture ends.
Via @neivaarq
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In outdoor design, color is never an aesthetic decision alone.
Pantone Color Institute`s read on Milan Design Week 2026 surfaced five chromatic directions emerging across installations, interiors, and objects.
Vibrant Jewels. Deep, saturated reds and purples.
Beautiful Blues. Clarity and calm, inspired by nature.
Extreme Pinks. Playful and energizing.
Sunshine Yellows. Radiant warmth.
Terra Rossa. Earthen and grounding.
For exterior design, color dictates how a material weathers in sun, how a textile holds its hue against salt and humidity, how a space reads at noon versus dusk. The five directions Pantone names are more than chromatic preferences. They are early signals about which materials will define the next generation of outdoor architecture.
The Edit, reading the color conversation through an outdoor lens.
Via @pantone
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Shade, when engineered at this level, becomes architecture.
The Tuuci Ocean Master MAX Bolero is a study in restrained form. A smooth domed canopy, cascading struts, a scalloped valance, all built around a patented hub system of stainless steel, resin, and anodized aluminum. Modular. Corrosion-proof. Self-lubricating. Engineered for the marine conditions that test outdoor design hardest.
Miami-founded, marine-grade by origin, refined across more than twenty-five years of practice. Tuuci shade structures are built to hold their geometry and their finish for the full life of the project they anchor.
In the Elemento catalog. Specified for the projects where shade is a defining gesture, not an afterthought.
Via @tuuci.living
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We flagged this one before Milan.
It delivered.
The Kelly Wearstler H&M Home collection marked two debuts at once. Wearstler`s first solo presentation at Milan Design Week, and H&M Home`s first appearance at Salone del Mobile and first furniture collaboration with a designer.
The installation, produced by Studio Boum at Palazzo Acerbi, unfolded across the frescoed rooms of the palazzo as a meditation on daily rituals and modular synergy.
Thirteen pieces previewed in Milan.
The full collection expands to twenty-nine at global launch on September 3, spanning wood, metal, ceramics, marble, and textiles.
A collaboration worth watching as it moves from installation to release.
Via @kellywearstler @hmhome
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The most interesting outdoor surfaces in luxury design right now are not being chosen. They are being authored.
Shira Barzilay, known internationally as Koketit, is one of the artists making that distinction matter. The Tel Aviv-based artist built her global recognition through one-line minimalist drawings of the female form, work that has appeared in Vogue, Elle, Architectural Digest, and on collaborations with Chanel, Cartier, Roberto Cavalli, and Zara. For years she layered her drawings onto photographs of pools as a kind of visual fantasy. Then a hotel in Bali commissioned her to translate one of those drawings into a real architectural mosaic on the surface of a swimming pool.
The shift matters.
A pool surface is no longer just a finish selection.
It is a commissionable canvas.
A wall of bookmatched stone is not just material specification.
It is composition.
An outdoor floor in mosaic, terrazzo, or hand-formed tile is not infrastructure. It is an artistic decision with the same weight as anything hung inside the home.
This is the conversation Elemento Living is built for. Outdoor finishings as the work of artists, not just installers. Material intelligence as the meeting point of craft, design, and authorship.
The most considered outdoor environments do not select finishes. They commission them.
Via @koketit
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Outdoor furniture designed for adaptability is a harder brief than it sounds.
Mamagreen has been solving it since 2007.
The DIMANAMANA collection is built around a design philosophy that takes movement seriously, not as an aesthetic gesture, but as a structural commitment. Modern forms that configure across residential and contract environments with equal conviction.
Smart materials selected for the outdoor demands that test everything: sun, salt, humidity, and daily use at volume. A production team of over 400 skilled craftspeople in Semarang, Indonesia, where traditional technique meets precision manufacturing in a process that does not cut corners because the design language does not allow for them.
This is outdoor furniture that adapts to the space and the life being lived in it, without the formal restraint that adaptation sometimes costs.
At Elemento Living, this is the caliber of design thinking and production standard we look for. Mamagreen is a brand we are paying very close attention to.
Via @mamagreenitalia
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The best activations at Fuorisalone do not ask you to look at the furniture.
They ask you to inhabit it.
Gandiablasco`s CUPRA Lounge at Cupra Garage Milano, conceived around the theme Beyond the Known, brought together a precise selection of objects in a space where material experimentation was the entire brief. ARENA by Soren Rose Studio in powder-coated aluminium formed through traditional manual bending techniques.
ARIA artisanal outdoor lamps.
BUIT seats by Mayice Studio with Kvadrat textiles.
The Ensombra parasol by Odos Design.
Each piece a product of process, hand-formed, materially specific, resolved.
The CUPRA collaboration extended that language into architecture. Parametric design and algorithmic processes translated into physical form. A hybrid dialogue between craft and computation that made the lounge feel like a proposition rather than a showroom.
ARENA is part of the Elemento Living catalog. When the process is this deliberate, the collection speaks for itself.
We simply made sure it was available.
@gandiablasco_official x @sorenrosestudio
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