DEDON has arrived!

It seems like just yesterday that we announced our new partnership with DEDON, and now it feels extra-official with the arrival of our floor samples! We had a lot of fun with our selections (hint: color!) and are so pleased with both the look and comfort of each piece. 

This blog highlights the collections shown on our floor -- and we invite you to stop in to see and sit in person in our year-round outdoor showroom upstairs, OUTSIDE Hoff Miller.

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DALA

​Comprised of circular lounge elements, DALA is easy-going yet artisanal, characterized by a weaving style so innovative and distinctive that it has been successfully patented.

DALA takes inspiration from the artisanship and improvised seating arrangements of the developing world. Surface and structure merge in this versatile collection by Stephen Burks, each piece starting as a powder-coated frame of aluminum mesh through which DEDON´s master weavers thread colorful strands of our revolutionary fiber.

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MU

MU by Toan Nguyen is a modular lounge system of understated elegance and exceptional versatility. Easily adapted to any living space, it combines the comfort, modular logic and compact proportions of the best indoor systems with the kind of lightness, durability and weatherability only DEDON can provide. An ideal choice for chill-out, play or conversation areas, the collection is equally suited to large gatherings and intimate get-togethers. In addition to classic Vulcano, MU is also available in the cool, light gray of Accona.

The collection’s name derives from a Zen term that translates roughly as ‘reduced to pure essence.’

“We worked very hard to reduce volumes and everything unnecessary, focusing instead on comfort cushions and the ways in which modules can be combined.” - Toan Nguyen

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MBRACE

Sebastian Herkner’s award-winning MBRACE collection is beloved for its modern material mix. Combining teak, woven fiber and an optional die-cast aluminum base, MBRACE is more distinct and richer than ever before. 

Herkner’s starting point for this award-winning collection was the material mix of multi-colored fiber, warm teak and smooth aluminum. “I wanted to use the traditional technique of the weaving,” he explains, “to create a strong design that was like a gesture—the gesture of embracing someone.” In addition, Herkner was interested in creating outdoor furniture that would be comfortable even off-season, without the cushions.
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Working with world-renowned colorist Giulio Ridolfo, Herkner and DEDON have developed unique colorways for the collection. All chairs feature optional cushion sets and wide backrests that envelope users in cozy comfort. Made of solid premium teak, MBRACE dining tables are characterized by their surfboard-like shape and narrow width that facilitates togetherness.

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IZON

IZON by Arik Levy is a collection of coffee and side tables designed to mix and match, and even overlap. Frames are of powder-coated aluminum in a variety of dimensions. Tabletops come in diverse shapes, sizes and materials, from glass to HPL. With its wide range of options, IZON encourages users to combine materials, colors, planes and proportions, creating unique, layered table arrangements to suit any setting.

Attracted to simplicity and visual kinetics in his designs, Levy began by searching for what he describes as “a sensation of displacement and movement.” This gave rise to the idea of overlapping horizons and a lateral shifting of both space and surfaces. “I believe this gives a great advantage in our living space,” he says, “because we have the ability to transform it as much as we like. It is a system in space that adapts to the user, and not the opposite.”

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KIDA

Stephen Burks’ award-winning collection is as delightful to look at as to use. The hanging longue chair is the first collection to be wrapped rather than woven in 834 meters of DEDON Fiber Touch, and features a cradle-like organic form that's open, airy, light and inviting. Once inside, users can luxuriate in KIDA's comfy cushion, which covers the entire seating area, and feel, in Burks' own words, “as free as the breeze” when swinging.

In conceiving KIDA, Burks sought to reinvent the hanging chair. Drawing inspiration from his close collaboration with DEDON's master weavers in the Philippines, he developed a design that looks and feels less enclosed. “The magic of being in the factory and challenging everybody to find unfamiliar ways of doing things that give a fresh and uniquely DEDON feeling to the collection is always my mission.” Burks says. 

​With its organically shaped frame of powder-coated aluminum, KIDA is lightweight yet exceptionally sturdy. Wrapped in innovative DEDON Fiber Touch, which has an especially soft tactile quality, the collection comes in three striped colorways.

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TIBBO

Renowned British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby created TIBBO for an era in which indoor and outdoor living spaces are merging. DEDON’s first collection in teak, TIBBO combines meticulous craftsmanship, superior comfort and remarkable lightness in a design that’s distinctive, elegant and pure. Comprising both dining and lounge elements in a mix of teak, textiles and woven fiber, TIBBO conveys an exceptionally rich and luxurious look and feel.

Barber and Osgerby took their initial inspiration for TIBBO from the wood itself. “The beauty of turned wooden has a tactile quality like no other material,” they remark. “Because of the oily nature of teak, the wood feels especially soft, and so we decided to create furniture that would accentuate these properties.” While most outdoor teak furniture looks, in their words, “very rectangular and uncomfortable,” every element of TIBBO was designed to be “as soft and tactile as possible.”

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