GIRO OUTDOOR LOUNGE FURNITURE

Giro is the outdoor collection designed by Vincent Van Duysen for Kettal, a collection which can blend into interiors and exteriors due to its tactility and pure lines: variety of shapes, textures and materials, and yet dining chairs, tables, sofas and center & side tables merge harmoniously together to create a warm, tactile and pleasant atmosphere.
The research behind this collection was about the rope, using it in a different way by sewing them together in order to create the shape of the product itself.
A big source of inspiration has been the Orkney Chair. As a great example of vernacular product design, this classic inspired Vincent Van Duysen to draw inspiration from the past with an eye to today’s and Kettal’s technology expertise. Whereas in the Orkney the rope was made of real ropes, Giro collection hinges on the flexibility of recycled polypropilente rope and on the necessity to produce such a collection industrially.
Based on a natural material to a very sustainable material that can face all kind of weather. The result is a very comfortable, welcoming look and feel. A collection that boasts warmth, elegance and coziness.
The materials are the protagonists of the collection, which seems almost not designed, it comes naturally together. The pattern of the rope (twisted), its thickness, its stitching and sewing details. But also, the joinery details, definition of edge radius, sections of the teak.