Gardens
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10 Chairs – Perfect For Your Gardens
Have a Seat, and Relax!From the Tuileries Garden to yours, this stylish and versatile chair is one of my all time favorite from France. Available through American Country Home Store.
Nan Quick’s Lorenzo Love Seats are absolutely breathtaking. These unique pieces are quickly becoming the quintessential summer garden chairs from the US and the UK. Available in orange, yellow, red, blue, purple and green.
Segno Armchair, The Conran Shop Both elegant and durable. A knock out in any given garden. Love the geometric lines!
Certified teak meets tubular steel. The wood backing is a perfect example of a classic garden chair design mixed
with modern lines.
Brilliantly designed as a piece of sculpture or garden furniture. Available at Edge Company
Classic Adirondack chair from LL Bean
The Balance bench from Janus & Cie
Reclaimed teak from salvage wood. It’s all about being green and beautiful. Garden Boutique
Paris Art Nouveau Metro Platform chairs from Liz Sherman Antiques.
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Luxurious Outdoor Furniture
The Spring 2011 collection from French outdoor furnishing company, Sifas, who is known for catering to the indoor-outdoor lifestyle, debut Kwadra at the ICFF, last month.
I loved the crisp and sexy geometric designs from this new collection. It is modern, light, made of lacquered aluminum and Textylene canvas. Kwadra came in a range of tables, chairs and chaises which were created beautifully – perfect for outdoor or indoor entertainment.
Their Oskar collection, on the other hand, is one of their most plush designs – yet. With padded chairs, chaises, love seats, and coordinating tables, many of the table tops and armrests are very well made and constructed by using Synteak, which is a 100% recyclable material designed by Sifas to keep the appearance and feel of teak, without the staining – ugh! (totally unavoidable when you’re having fun in the sun).
That collection is also water resistant, and environmentally sensitive.How convenient.Having evolved with architectural trends over the years, Sifas designs have inspired a blend of indoor intimacy and outdoor freedom.
Sifas was founded on the French Riviera in 1937. Their products are all about beautiful and functional designs, with a real commitment to comfort.“Sifas designers are challenged to create furniture that is comfortable and refined in both interior and exterior applications. The same furniture can be used around a swimming pool or inside a dining room.” Joost Jansen, President of Sifas USA, www.sifasusa.com -
The Weekender: Chelsea Flower Show 2011
The exuberant and foxy, Dame Helen Mirren launched a flower named in her honor during the Chelsea Flower Show Preview.Few things in life can be compare to this great event. And this year, once again, it did not disappoint. I was expecting to see more constructed boxwood garden designs like we saw a couple of years back, but having a rehash on the things past is never a good thing. Or so I’m told. The big trend was vegetable gardens, as the flower industry is still suffering from the storm of the recession. Though we’re told that things are coming up roses with some of the garden houses in England.
Wished I caught the writer of this poem, inscribed on the Cancer Research garden wall. Very touching.
Loved the hairnet decorated with those dainty little black satin bows!Queen Elizabeth II was presented with her namesake orchid by a Taiwanese team of gardeners. The orchid was the only one of its kind.It must be nice being Queen.
Most of the gardens, this year, lacked that certain modern edge of days gone by, so it was a delight to see this construction of metal veins in the British Heart Foundation garden. A sublime contrast with nature!
Few men, of a certain age, carry it off as well as Sir Paul Smith.
More modern delight – au naturel!Seeing these equisetum in the Homebase Garden made me realized how gardens do not have to be over the top in order to look sensational.
The RBG Melbourne PavilionBringing nature in is always a good idea, don’t you think?
Vegetable gardens were a big hit this year at the Chelsea Flower Show. England is blessed for having such perfect rainy days. When things blossom, they blossom very well, indeed.
The soon to be married Prince Albert of Monaco visited the Monaco Garden.How glorious is Monaco? “It’s a bore!”. Of course, this is only so if you’re Gaston Lachalle (those who’ve seen the movie know exactly what I mean).
Wearing a Black Swan inspired flower tutu this ballerina enchants all her encounters in the M&G investments garden. Although her moves were bewitching, I must say, the outfit was a bit unflattering.
Never mind Taisia Melnyk, nor the William and Catherine English Musk hybrid roses, let’s talk about that splendid hat. How divine! It brought to mind the one worn by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady – The Ascot Scene.
The Flemings GardenIs there anything more romantic than waterlilies?Not to mention serenely dramatic?
I remembered as if it was yesterday when it was announced that Natasha Richardson died after a skiing accident in Canada.What a sad day that was!Vanessa Redgraves pictured here holds a new rose from rose specialists Harkness in loving memory of her daughter.All photos are from the Telegraphwww.telegraph.co.uk
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