top of page

our  featured magazine articles  

NEW... VALENTINA OUTDOOR FURNITURE COLLECTION & ACCESSORIES by DIABLA

Decor 11


DIABLA is a new, fun & energetic GANDIABLASCO brand offering pieces that add a powerful injection of colour for any outdoor relaxation area combing a casual, carefree character with elegance. The new Valentina Outdoor pieces is the debut collection for this new style of ambient furnishings with a carefree, casual, colourful, daring and cosmopolitan feel.

Designed to allow you enjoy outdoor spaces in an informal way, with sofas and sunbeds at floor-level that make multiple combinations and improvised uses possible.


VALENTINA

As a starting point, Alejandra Gandía-Blasco, the designer of the Valentina Outdoor collection, set herself the challenge of designing a seat using only two cushions. The purpose was to ensure that they were held together using as few elements as possible and in such a way that one of them would remain upright. Thus, the idea of using only two cushions and a light and nearly imperceptible structure of steel rods, not only gave rise to a seat, but also a double sofa and a sunbed, with their distinctive informal and casual style. They go with a low side table


THE PORTABLE PLISY LAMP

Plisy, made of an unusual folding material, polyethylene, with its bracelet bag style cord, is the perfect lighting accessory to give a chic and fun touch to an evening outdoors. A portable lamp that transfers the aesthetics of elegant indoor folding screens to a piece specially designed for outdoor use. Plisy is a kind of stylish and technological reinvention of the garden lantern, which incorporates LED lighting and is charged by induction.


Also designed by Alejandra Gandía-Blasco, Plisy is a lamp that takes its inspiration not only from lamp screens of classical lighting but also from fashion, hence its nautical fabric cord that allows it to be carried as if it were a wristlet bag.This combination of references in Plisy's design is not a coincidence: Alejandra Gandía-Blasco fuses all those common inspirations in her creative processes, in which a wide variety of personal concerns are involved, from the most technological artistic expressions to fashion and craftsmanship. A tribute to folded fabrics and their applications in multiple contexts


THE DONUT STOOL

Donut is an outdoor stool with a fun and playful design that also happens to be ingenious, just a glance will bring a smile to your face.

With a somewhat obvious inspiration little more needs to be said to describe what it looks like at first sight. In fact its Japanese designer, Mikiya Kobayashi was inspired by the shape of doughnuts to create this delightful stool.


The seat is made from a soft foam filling while the gathers that appear within the material that cover it underline the similarities with the doughnut reference. It’s a fabric that is made specifically for use in the outdoors, so that it’s very resistant to the weather and can be removed for washing.

With its feel of a stuffed seat it’s almost as if this exterior stool was upholstered, Donut is in fact a design that equally fits inside, easily. So that it can be used indoors or outdoors without any distinction; keeping it outside and sometimes using it inside, when needed or the other way around. Because one of the best things about Donut, specifically, is its soft seating, a lot more comfortable over time than other stools made from more rigid materials. Donut is also available in many colours, some highly vivid ones like red, pink or mustard. It can be used as a feature piece to bring a dash of colour to highlight a bar or eating area, with an informal air that seems spontaneous but has a certain style and practicality about it.



TOUFFU PET HOUSES

Touffu is an original pet house that hides a very special design behind its typical pitched roof format: Our pets also have the right to live in a stylish environment!


What makes it different is not so obvious, thus you have to look at the piece in detail and with your gaze fixed on how it is assembled. Its structure is designed in such a way that the panels that make it up fit together in the assembly process by means of a system of slots, which allow them to be assembled while they support each other without any need for screws. They fit together by applying pressure so that the house is completely stable.

This type of pressure coupling, without the need for additional assembly elements, is an art in traditional Japanese woodwork, particularly used in the construction of architectural structures. The designers of this ingenious outdoor house for pets are two architects: Manel Jiménez Ibáñez and Violeta Alcaide Weishaupt.


Touffu is probably the smallest scale house that can be designed by an architect, and with an added difficulty: it had to fit into a flat package to optimise its delivery. The panels are made of phenolic board, a material that can withstand outdoor conditions very well. However, thanks to its aesthetics, Touffu can also be placed indoors, as it does not have the distinctive appearance of an outdoor pet house. Inside, it has a cushion lined with a removable fabric, so that it can be easily washed. It is available in two sizes, one for larger animals and one for smaller pets. It can be used for dogs, cats and domestic rodents.



8 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All
bottom of page