Viadurini in the Garden: Spring and Summer 2023 Trends

In this time of the year with the arrival of beautiful days and raising temperatures, also grows in us the desire to spend time outdoors on the veranda or your own backyard. This year we’ll show you the trends to decorate the outdoor spaces of your house.

Rattan: material of the year

Not everybody knows its history and its characteristics, but numerous are the one who get fascinated by this precious natural fiber material.

History of natural fiber 

Rattan was born in Southeast Asia and belongs to Calameae’s family, it is a natural fiber obtained from the processing of some species of climbing palms. This particular vegetable fiber needs a moist environment and an extremely acidic soil, which can mostly be found in the forests, where it grows abundantly.
Coming from a climbing palm, it climbs everywhere and often also deprives the trees of light, which is why the periodic harvesting of this material, contributes to improving the quality of the eco-system.
Another curious fact about its history is the fact that stil 1700 this particular material was only used from indigenous to build rafts. It was only later that began the great export of this fiber fruitful for the Asian populations, although in Italy we will have to wait until 1940 for its appearance. 

Characteristics of rattan as a material

Employed in the production of many decoration pieces of furniture, like chairs, poufs or outdoor armchairs. Rattan entered our lives gifting us a touch of exotic style.
Many are the advantageous characteristics of this material: it’s a light and malleable raw material, perfect for the production of furniture; it’s resistant to mold, even if it’s recommended to subject it to periodic maintenance to avoid deterioration; it’s biodegradable, its use, in fact, represents and ethical and responsible choice.

Advices on how to use rattan in house's decoration

If you have a veranda, a terrace or a big backyard, it can’t be missing some rattan piece of furniture: it can be a coffee table, a chair or an outdoor armchair, it will reveal as the most suitable choice to donate elegance to the atmosphere.
In alternative to the single furniture, if this material really fascinates you, you’ll have the chance to choose a rattan living room and create an exotic relaxing corner. In Viadurini in the Garden’s collection you’ll find some sound proposals.

Ethnic style for outdoors

Between the following year’s decoration trends, and suitable with the material we’ve talked about, there is the ethnic style. Characterized by strong and decisive colors like red, orange or brown used in contrast to more neutral colors like white or ecru, this style welcomes everything that comes from Africa and the East, included materials.

The indispensable characteristic to decorate in perfect ethnic style is to possess the ability of mixing different colors, fabrics and furnishing accessories that can appear difficult to combine, but that will make the environment look very welcoming.
As for fabrics, the ideal is to focus on raw materials, such as linen, in the Viadurini Textile Collection there is a wide selection of elegant and refined household linen made of natural linen, hemp or cotton.
With the furnishing accessories on the other hand, you can play by combining furniture made with different materials such as wood, bamboo or rattan. The effect will be an exotic and refined style.