Seven new collections from Salone del Mobile 2026, now available for your projects
Vondom’s outdoor collections 2026 are born from a very specific obsession: that someone arrives at a well-designed terrace, sits down for the first time, and simply stays. That they do not analyze the piece. That they do not assess the material. That they do not think about the spec sheet. That something in the proportion, in the depth of the seat, in the texture of the fabric against skin, in the way the backrest supports without insisting, tells them this is the spot. That it feels right here.
That moment — the one that goes unspoken, the one that never shows up in any project presentation — is what defines whether an outdoor project has worked or not. And it is the hardest one to anticipate from a floor plan.
A space where people stayed
In Milan, during Salone del Mobile, we built a space that was never meant to feel like a trade fair stand. We wanted it to be exactly that: a place to sit down and stay. Walls that stepped back. Greenery growing among the pieces — Japanese maples, ferns, ornamental grasses — as if it had been there for years. And in the middle, seven new collections coexisting. Just materiality, light, and the chance to touch.
People sat down. They relaxed. They ran a hand along the braided rope of a Serra lounge chair and lingered. They touched the teak of Fusta and paused — the way someone pauses when they recognize a noble wood worked with care. They sank into a Pasadena sofa and stopped looking around. Those reactions cannot be designed. They are provoked by choosing well.
Why choosing the right outdoor collections for a project is harder than it seems
And choosing well for the outdoors is harder than it seems.
Because the outdoors does not forgive. An indoor sofa lives protected: stable temperature, no direct radiation, no rain, no salt, no chlorine. An outdoor sofa has to withstand all of that and still invite someone to sit down after three summers. The difference between an outdoor project that gets better with time and one that does not comes down to decisions made months earlier, in an office, over a catalog. The choice of material, of finish, of structure. The knowledge that the rotationally molded polyethylene you see today will look the same in five years. That the treated teak will develop a silver patina that makes it even more beautiful. That the lacquered aluminum will hold its finish against the sea breeze. That the technical fabrics will keep their color intact through chlorine, the August sun, and daily use.
That is what it means to specify with intention. Choosing what gains with time, not just what convinces on paper.
Three ways to get an outdoor space right
What we presented in Milan is born from that obsession. Ramón Esteve has worked teak with the same rigor he brings to architecture: lines with nothing to spare, curves that emerge from the structure, joints that disappear. Jean-Marie Massaud has made an aluminum frame vanish beneath cushions so deep and generous that whoever sits does not want to get up — and turned a braided-rope armchair into a private refuge in the middle of an open terrace. Eugeni Quitllet has refined a silhouette capable of furnishing an entire restaurant — dining room, terrace, bar, pool — with a coherence that makes everything look as though it had always been there.
That is what a good outdoor project achieves. Pieces that feel part of the place, not something added to it after the fact.
An outdoor space that only works by day is only half finished
And then there is the night. Because an outdoor space that only works during the day is only half an outdoor space. The lighting pieces Ramón Esteve has designed in rotationally molded polyethylene with integrated RGBW light do not illuminate a garden — they transform it. They turn it into somewhere else. And for anyone designing a residence where the outdoors matters as much as the living room, that changes everything.
Vondom’s outdoor collections 2026, available for your next project
We return from Milan certain that these pieces will end up in projects that matter. Not because we say so, but because everyone who touched them, who sat down, who stayed a little longer than planned at our stand, already knows.
Every collection presented at Salone del Mobile 2026 is available. With technical data sheets, configurations, samples, and a team in Valencia that has spent decades manufacturing for projects that demand what they demand: everything works and everything lasts.
If you are working on an outdoor space that needs to measure up, let’s talk.
