Indoor and outdoor furniture trends for summer 2025

Targa Petit armchair with Viennese wickerwork by Gebrüder Thonet Vienna. Design: GamFratesi www.gebruederthonetvienna.com Foto: © Carlo Mossetti

Kitzbühel | Issue 57 | Summer 2025

One of the things avidly awaited by people each and every year are the new furniture trends. And, as all passionate observers know only too well: anything is possible. Even if many things are repeated and renewed, in the final result some things are truly new. And that, in turn, provides endless food for discussion and brand-new inspirations.

Nolita outdoor collection made of tubular steel by Pedrali. Design: CMP Design www.pedrali.com Foto: © Andrea Garuti

Eri armchair and pouf by Flexform. Design: Fumi Shibata www.flexform.it Foto: © Flexform

A radiantly brilliant sunshine yellow, a hearty succulent apple-green, a sparkling enlivening powder blue, supplemented by pastel hues and earthy natural colours. It’s as if summertime was a personal visitor to your garden or moved in and took an honoured place on the terrace or in the living room. Designers don’t hold back when it is a matter of dipping into pots of paints and colours or serving themselves new and untried draft designs which occasionally add a slight retro-touch to the whole. They love to set new accents which turn a room or a certain designated area into something extra special, make it a veritable highlight about which one actually tells stories, reveals background clues.

Clay armchair by Moroso. Design: Zanellato / Bortotto www.moroso.it Foto: © Studio Eye

It goes without saying, the working materials manifest now, and probably from now on, a sustainability, that is a theme which will not run out very soon. And yet, it is far from the only theme, which is being incorporated into furniture, processed in new combinations which permit relaxation-oriented lounging fauteuils, sofas, tables and chairs to be perceived from new angles of vision and viewing as if they were themselves something brand-new. For example, the forces of gravity are turned on their head in one piece’s seating shells that practically float atop glass legs, or leather which is artistically imprinted or marble created in the most unusual of shapes and forms. Delicate, nearly filigree weaving and basketwork, artful carpentry and tailoring attaining the level of Haute Couture make observer eyes gleam with excitement, make hearts beat faster, and let us experience pieces of furniture even haptically utterly anew.

Muyu sun loungers with Tsuki side table by Manutti. Design: Stéphane De Winter www.manutti.com Foto: © Manutti

Easychair Aero by Kenneth Cobonpue. Design: Kenneth Cobonpue www.kennethcobonpue.com Foto: © Kenneth Cobonpue

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Selbstverständlich ist gerade bei den Werkstoffen die Nachhaltigkeit nach wie vor ein Dauerbrenner. Doch bei weitem nicht das einzige, denn es entstehen immer wieder neue Kombinationen, die Fauteuils, Sofas, Tische und Stühle, von denen bereits jeweils Tausende existieren, dann doch aus einem neuen Blickwinkel erscheinen lassen. Da wird beispielsweise die Schwerkraft umgedreht, etwa mit einer Sitzschale, die auf gläsernen Beinen schwebt, Leder wird kunstvoll bedruckt und Marmor in die unterschiedlichsten Formen gebracht. Zartes Flechtwerk, kunstvolle Tischlerarbeiten und Schneiderdetails auf dem Niveau der Haute-Couture lassen Augen glänzen, Herzen höherschlagen und Möbelstücke auch haptisch ganz neu erleben.

Whereas over the last year the theme of minimalism was absolutely sworn off for all time and a new era of opulence was rung in, this year the cards were once again shuffled, and they landed a little differently than expected. Never before now have there been so many chairs observed that stood on three legs, yet (so to speak as the opposite pole) never before did so many robust, really heavy floor-hugging sofas and seating groups take up large areas of space in our rooms. In the chairs, there is a note of “hugging” which comes into the limelight, brought forth by the design which lets the backrest flow into the arm rests practically seamlessly.

Bellevie collection with Bouquet Sauvage cushion and Balad floor lamp by Fermob. Design: Pagnon et Pelhaître / Tristan Lohner www.fermob.com Foto: © Louise Carrasco

And of course, the fact that one or two classics are retrieved out of the archives is not really anything new. But that is just fine. After all, so many good designs were created in the 20th century which did not really deserve to promptly disappear into the cabinet of relicts. For that reason, they return to the stage every now and again, and it is always startling to see just how timeless and compatible they always were and still remain. In that vein, 2025 is truly a designer year, in which the borderlines between inside and outside tend to go hazy; in which new style-cocktails are ably mixed; and in which we are mighty happy that life turns out to be so beautiful and so colourful.

Indoor and outdoor furniture trends for summer 2025

A style festival of colors, materials, and shapes. A fascinating mix of minimalism and opulence, classic and avant-garde.

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