Rafael is a rope and teak chair with armrests by Ethimo, design by Paola Navone.
Thanks to the exceptional visionary creativity of Paola Navone and the design experience of Ethimo, the dining table becomes a surprising ‘project’ capable of transforming any dining area into an elegant, original, exciting mode de vie.
Preciously tactile materials, fascinating looking table tops and details devised to make Rafael tables and chairs unique team to craft a new experience of contact with nature and a new ‘mode’ of al fresco dining.
The perfect balance of comfort and design, Rafael tables have matching little armchairs. Ergonomic and comfortable, they team a structure in teak with a surprising weave of Light Grey Round Rope on the seat, embracing the unmistakable eclectic feel that runs through the entire collection. The structure’s Grey plastic supports are an elegant decorative yet functional ‘quirk’.
Strong lines, beautiful materials and energetic colours dialogue in Rafael dining tables and little armchairs, creating continuity with the whole project.
The Rafael dining collection is an ‘homage’ to the contemporary outdoor table, lending personalised uniqueness and creative flair to residential settings and enhancing the most exclusive contract spaces, in an original, refined interpretation of conviviality.
Exotic, natural and… special. This is the start of RAFAEL, the new story told by Ethimo and Paola Navone. A project that is a child of the exceptional ability of this designer to interpret and rework the aesthetic and formal approach of distant cultures and landscapes and of the Ethimo passion for creating the ideal, harmonious relation between furnishings and their surroundings.
RAFAEL is the collection of lounge furnishings that aspires to be the emblem of an exotic idea springing from contemporary imagination, capturing the essence of the world’s most fascinating locations to arouse extraordinary sensations of wellbeing and generate new outdoor living experiences. Created to bring alive the most exclusive outdoor spaces with their own unique personality, this collection ‘absorbs’ the changing, multi-faceted shapes of nature and preserves its vital influences, which shine through in the strength of its lines and the rough beauty of its materials. Design, materials and decoration in this way generate furnishings with an eclectic soul. Sturdy, welcoming articles with cosy volumes that express colour and energy. Fine artisan crafting of teak, marble and lava stone in fact combines with the sophisticated range of textile colours, again designed by Paola Navone, that enhance the padded furniture.
RAFAEL is a modular system comprising a lounge seating, day beds and coffee tables. All the elements can be used together or stand-alone. The alternating slats that make up the backrests bring alive the unusual original hexagonal profiles of the frame, in the new distressed natural teak finish. A dimensional rhythm that lends movement and visual aperture, lending these furnishings dynamism and ‘air’. The backrests are a series of asymmetrical slats held together by special metal ‘staples’ that, together with the frame, create a woody organic shell holding a soft ‘alcove’ of cushions with refined weave and intense colours.
