Made for the Shade

Edited by Karen D. Singh -- Interior Design, 2/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Since making an outdoor-furniture debut two years ago, B&B Italia has continued to commission several of the international stars who design its indoor furniture. Two of Patricia Urquiola's latest introductions deliver her trademark transparency and varied forms. Delicately mixing old-fashioned formality and newfangled polyethylene, her high- or low-backed Crinoline armchair comes in black-and-bronze and black-and-white, with or without the woven floral. Weaving gets beefed up to webbing in the backrest of her Ravel sectional, with its decidedly contemporary aluminum base. For more in that mode, consider Studio Massaud's Springtime sofas, designed to fit inside a rattan or fabric cabana, and modular chaise longues. For perching, not lounging, there's the Reel stool by Atelier Oï, a new addition to the B&B roster. The piece is essentially polyethylene wrapped around an aluminum spool in three sizes. And Marcel Wanders Studio took on the accessories front, supersizing glazed ceramic vessels to create the White collection of planters. 800-872-1697; bebitalia.com. circle 411