Outdoor furniture is a fashion category, and the directions that set retail ranges are visible a season or two ahead if you know where to look. Drawing on what is moving at the major fairs and in our own development, here are the trends shaping outdoor living into 2027.
The throughline is comfort and flexibility. The garden is now a room, and buyers expect it to feel like one.
Modular comfort and smaller spaces
Homes and balconies are getting smaller, and furniture is adapting. Modular sofas that reconfigure, compact bistro and balcony sets, and multi-use pieces are all gaining share. Deeper seats, generous cushions and a more relaxed posture make outdoor seating feel like the living room it is replacing.
Warm naturals and soft detailing
The cool, hard, all-grey look is softening. Warm timber tones, muted earthy colours and rounded silhouettes are taking over, with finishes that celebrate the grain rather than hide it. Rope detailing has become a signature way to soften aluminium and timber frames while keeping all-weather performance.
Mixed materials are part of the same story: timber with rope, aluminium with wicker, concrete tops on timber bases. The blend reads as considered rather than mass-produced.
Colour, texture and the indoor-outdoor blur
The strongest force in the category is the erasure of the line between inside and out. Customers now expect their terrace to be furnished with the same care as their living room, which pulls indoor ideas outdoors: bouclé-look performance fabrics, sculptural coffee tables, floor lamps rated for weather, rugs that drain. Ranges that read as rooms, not as sets of chairs, are winning the photography and the sale.
Colour follows the same logic. The safe all-grey era is giving way to layered warm neutrals, with olive, terracotta, sand and off-white doing the work greys used to do. Accents arrive through cushions and ceramics rather than frames, which keeps the big-ticket pieces versatile across seasons.
Texture is the third lever. Mixed materials within a single piece, a rope back on a timber frame, a stone-look top on aluminium legs, signal considered design and justify a premium without changing the cost base dramatically.
Stay ahead of the season
We develop around 1,000 new pieces a year and show first at SPOGA in Cologne, so our ranges are built around where the market is heading, not where it has been.
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