I <i>do</i> like the design because when so much outdoor furniture right now looks like a waterproof version of exactly what’s in your living room, Vasconcelos’s design is, as outdoor furniture should be, a lot of fun. Those tuffets, the shape of single-cell organisms from above, are gratifyingly buoyant, and the bolsters are detached but weighted so that you can reconfigure them to lounge in whatever position you want on the slightly bouncy surface. You can also pull up similarly contoured side tables. I was relieved to find another example in a Memphis-via-Betelgeuse black and white on the second floor of the showroom. Photo 28 of 71 in It’s Furniture Design’s Big Week. Here’s What We Saw During Salone del Mobile

It’s Furniture Design’s Big Week. Here’s What We Saw During Salone del Mobile

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I do like the design because when so much outdoor furniture right now looks like a waterproof version of exactly what’s in your living room, Vasconcelos’s design is, as outdoor furniture should be, a lot of fun. Those tuffets, the shape of single-cell organisms from above, are gratifyingly buoyant, and the bolsters are detached but weighted so that you can reconfigure them to lounge in whatever position you want on the slightly bouncy surface. You can also pull up similarly contoured side tables. I was relieved to find another example in a Memphis-via-Betelgeuse black and white on the second floor of the showroom.