Paola Lenti Indoor and Outdoor Furniture

Paola Lenti creates luxury indoor and outdoor furniture distinguished by extraordinary color, innovative textiles, enduring comfort, and meticulous Italian craftsmanship. Founded in 1994, the company has transformed contemporary outdoor living by bringing the material sophistication and emotional warmth traditionally associated with interior furnishings into gardens, terraces, poolside settings, and yachts.

The collection includes modular outdoor sofas, lounge chairs, dining furniture, chaise longues, daybeds, stools, tables, architectural shading, and handcrafted rugs. Many designs can move naturally between interior and exterior environments, helping architects and designers create a fluid relationship between a building and its surroundings.

Paola Lenti furniture is made memorable through color and material. Proprietary technical yarns, richly textured weaves, natural fibers, felt, stone, glass, ceramic, metal, and wood are developed into coordinated systems with exceptional visual depth. Available through Scott + Cooner, the collection supports sophisticated residential, hospitality, commercial, and marine projects.

Contemporary Italian Design Since 1994

Paola Lenti was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Meda, Italy, a region with a deep tradition of furniture design and manufacturing. The company first attracted attention through its distinctive textiles and rugs before applying the same material research to furniture.

During the early 2000s, Paola Lenti began redefining outdoor furniture. At the time, exterior seating was generally associated with a limited selection of rigid materials, colors, and forms. The company envisioned outdoor spaces with the softness, tactile interest, and comfort of a thoughtfully furnished interior.

That idea led to the development of proprietary performance yarns and an expanding collection of sofas, armchairs, daybeds, tables, rugs, and architectural elements. Today, Paola Lenti works across residential, hospitality, and yachting environments in more than 60 countries.

A New Language for Outdoor Living

Paola Lenti approaches outdoor design as a complete living environment rather than as a collection of isolated weather-resistant objects. Seating, tables, rugs, shade structures, and architectural elements are developed to work together in color, texture, scale, and function.

This integrated approach allows outdoor rooms to feel as comfortable and personal as interior spaces. A modular sofa can establish a primary gathering area, lounge chairs can create smaller zones for conversation, and rugs can organize furniture while adding softness underfoot.

The result is an outdoor landscape that supports dining, conversation, rest, work, and entertainment without sacrificing visual refinement.

The Art and Science of Color

Color is one of Paola Lenti’s most recognizable design tools. Instead of treating it as a decorative finish applied after a product has been designed, the company develops color alongside fibers, textures, structures, and surfaces.

Extensive palettes make it possible to create tonal compositions, nuanced contrasts, and transitions between related hues. A modular sofa may combine several colors across its woven structure, upholstery, and loose cushions. Rugs and accessories can repeat these tones or introduce a complementary accent.

Color also helps furniture relate to its surroundings. Earthy neutrals can connect with stone and landscape, saturated blues can respond to water and sky, and botanical greens can help furniture settle naturally into a garden.

Because digital screens cannot reproduce color and texture with complete accuracy, physical samples remain essential when specifying Paola Lenti materials.

Rope: A Revolution in Outdoor Textiles

Rope is one of Paola Lenti’s most important material innovations. Developed specifically for outdoor use, the proprietary technical yarn combines the tactile appearance of a textile with the performance needed for exposure to exterior conditions.

Made from polyolefin, Rope does not absorb water or humidity and dries quickly. It is resistant to ultraviolet exposure, mold, and bacteria and is 100 percent recyclable. The material received a Wallpaper Design Award as best fabric in 2005.

Rope can be woven into fabrics, braids, cords, and tubular structures. These different expressions allow it to function as upholstery, a structural weave, a decorative detail, or the surface of an outdoor rug.

Its soft hand and rich color range also allow Rope to cross the boundary between outdoor and indoor use. It is a technical material that does not look or feel purely technical.

Twiggy and Diade

Twiggy and Diade evolved from Paola Lenti’s ongoing research into high-performance materials. Both were developed to combine durability, cleanability, recyclability, and tactile appeal.

Twiggy is a braided polyolefin yarn that can be handwoven directly onto furniture frames or sewn into spiral patterns. It is used across seating collections, poufs, and rugs, creating surfaces with depth, variation, and visible craftsmanship.

Diade is used to create durable, expressive surfaces for furniture and architectural applications. Its performance and color possibilities allow technical material to become an active element of design.

Both materials are mono-material and recyclable. They are waterproof, washable, and developed to withstand challenging environmental conditions without requiring potentially hazardous supplementary treatments.

Aquatech, Light and Other Performance Textiles

Paola Lenti’s material library extends well beyond Rope. Aquatech, Light, Maris, Moss, Brio, Chain Outdoor, and other proprietary textiles and structures offer different appearances, tactile qualities, and performance characteristics.

Aquatech braids create richly textured furniture surfaces, while Light offers an open, airy handwoven structure. Chain Outdoor uses a tubular knit to cover and soften sculptural seating forms.

This extensive material range allows each collection to have a distinct identity while remaining compatible with the broader Paola Lenti color system. Designers can coordinate woven frames, cushion upholstery, rugs, and accessories without relying on identical materials throughout the project.

Frame Outdoor Furniture

Designed by Francesco Rota, Frame is one of Paola Lenti’s defining outdoor furniture collections. The family includes modular sofas, armchairs, chairs, chaise longues, platforms, benches, and side tables.

Frame uses aluminum structures with visible components in stainless steel. Fixed woven upholstery is available in materials such as Rope, Aquatech, and Twiggy, while removable cushions provide comfort and additional opportunities for color coordination.

The modular sofa can be arranged according to the proportions and circulation of a terrace, pool deck, garden, or hospitality environment. Individual seating and complementary pieces allow the same material language to continue throughout the space.

Frame’s combination of architectural structure and textile softness captures the essence of Paola Lenti outdoor furniture.

Ami Collection

Designed by Jeroen Martens, Ami uses handwoven material to create a distinctive surface around a precise structural frame. The collection includes sofas, armchairs, chairs, and stools.

Rope, Aquatech, Twiggy, Light, and other selected materials can give Ami dramatically different personalities. A dense weave creates a richer visual field, while a lighter open structure allows air and views to pass through the furniture.

Removable cushions introduce comfort and make it possible to build sophisticated color combinations. Ami works equally well in residential terraces, hospitality lounges, and marine environments where material performance and visual distinction are both important.

Cove Modular Seating

Cove offers a softer and more enveloping interpretation of outdoor seating. Its modular elements can be arranged to create linear sofas, generous conversation areas, and compositions adapted to architectural corners or open terraces.

The collection’s upholstered surfaces and abundant cushions bring interior-like comfort outdoors. Armchairs and poufs extend the family, allowing smaller zones to relate to the primary seating arrangement.

Selected Cove pieces can also be used indoors, making the collection suitable for projects where the same visual language should continue across glazed walls, covered terraces, and interior living areas.

Float Seating

Float is characterized by soft volume, relaxed comfort, and flexible use. The collection includes armchairs, sofas, chaise longues, platforms, and poufs.

Its textile covers give the furniture an informal yet carefully tailored appearance. Different materials and color combinations allow Float to feel playful, understated, or richly expressive.

Float pieces are especially effective in relaxed lounge environments, poolside settings, covered patios, bedrooms, and informal hospitality spaces. Selected versions are appropriate for both indoor and outdoor use.

Shito Handwoven Seating

Designed by Francesco Rota, Shito demonstrates the sculptural possibilities of handwoven upholstery. Its stainless-steel structure is covered with Chain Outdoor tubular knit and softened by recycled and biodegradable polyester padding.

The collection includes an armchair and chaise longue. Their flowing forms and intricate woven surfaces create a sense of movement, while loose cushions can be added for enhanced comfort.

Shito can be used outside or within interior environments, making it a compelling option for spaces that seek furniture with a handcrafted presence and a strong relationship between material and form.

Kabà Outdoor Seating

Designed by Elia Nedkov, Kabà combines a slender metal structure with generous removable cushions. The steel frame creates a graphic outline around the softer upholstered elements.

The family includes an armchair and two-seat sofa. A broad selection of fabrics and frame colors allows Kabà to coordinate with surrounding architecture, landscape, rugs, and occasional tables.

Its open construction gives the collection a visually light presence, making it suitable for terraces and patios where maintaining a sense of space is important.

Sciara Lava-Stone Tables

Sciara was developed through a collaboration between Paola Lenti and fashion designer Marella Ferrera. Its distinctive surfaces begin with basaltic lava stone, a material formed from solidified volcanic magma.

The stone is transformed through color and craftsmanship, producing tabletops with rich, individual surfaces. Natural variation makes every piece unique.

Sciara includes dining tables, side tables, and consoles supported by stainless-steel structures. The collection can be used outdoors and in interior environments, offering a strong material counterpoint to woven furniture and soft upholstery.

Outdoor Dining Furniture

Paola Lenti dining tables, chairs, armchairs, and stools make it possible to create outdoor dining areas with the same attention given to an interior dining room.

Table dimensions should be selected according to seating requirements, circulation, and the architecture of the site. Chairs need to provide comfortable support while remaining easy to move and maintain.

Color and material can connect the dining area with nearby lounge furniture without requiring an exact match. A Sciara table may be paired with woven seating, while a monochromatic metal table can provide a quieter foundation for colorful chairs.

Chaise Longues, Daybeds and Platforms

Outdoor relaxation is central to the Paola Lenti collection. Chaise longues, sunbeds, platforms, and daybeds support reading, sunbathing, conversation, and rest.

Collections such as Frame, Float, Shito, and other outdoor families provide different levels of support and enclosure. Some designs are visually open and architectural, while others use cushions and soft textile surfaces to create a more cocooning experience.

For poolside use, consider water exposure, drying time, furniture placement, and circulation. Protective covers may be recommended for selected products when they are not in use.

Outdoor Rugs

Paola Lenti helped introduce the idea that a rug could become an essential component of an outdoor room. Technical yarns resistant to moisture and ultraviolet exposure make it possible to add texture, color, and spatial definition to terraces and gardens.

Outdoor rugs can anchor a seating composition, connect several furniture groups, or soften the visual transition between architecture and landscape. Their woven or sewn surfaces bring an unexpectedly tactile quality to exterior environments.

The High Tech and Area collections include numerous patterns, textures, and color combinations. Many rugs can be produced to project-specific dimensions, helping them relate precisely to the furniture and available space.

Indoor Felt Rugs

Paola Lenti’s indoor rug collection reflects the company’s origins in textiles. Its proprietary woven felt is made from pure new wool through a series of complex production phases, many completed by hand.

The felt is compact, durable, and resistant to pilling. Individual components may be cut, layered, embroidered, appliquéd, or joined with visible zigzag stitching to create graphic surfaces with remarkable depth.

Collections such as Dedalo, Nubi, Field, Rilievo, Continuo, Flussi, Accordi, Graffito, and Tatami explore color through modular elements and decorative seams. Irregular edges and small handmade variations become part of each rug’s identity.

Custom and Made-to-Measure Rugs

Many Paola Lenti rugs are conceived as made-to-measure pieces rather than standardized accessories. Dimensions, colors, and compositional details can be selected to suit the architecture and furniture arrangement.

Visible stitching is an important part of the design language. Seams do more than join components; they create rhythm, pattern, and visual movement across the surface.

A custom rug can define an unusually shaped seating area, accommodate architectural constraints, or establish a color palette that connects several parts of an interior or exterior project.

Indoor Furniture and Materials

Although Paola Lenti is widely recognized for outdoor furniture, its indoor collection is equally rooted in textile innovation and color research. Indoor sofas, armchairs, tables, rugs, and accessories use wool felt, natural fibers, richly woven upholstery, stone, glass, wood, and other carefully selected materials.

The company has also explored historic fibers such as flax and hemp, bringing renewed attention to their tactile and environmental value. Indoor materials include felt, chenille, wool, linen-based textiles, and specialty surfaces.

The indoor and outdoor collections are not designed as separate worlds. They share colors, textures, proportions, and an emphasis on personal well-being.

Seamless Indoor-Outdoor Interiors

Contemporary architecture increasingly connects interiors with terraces, gardens, and pool areas through broad openings and continuous sightlines. Paola Lenti furniture is particularly well suited to this approach.

Collections approved for both interior and exterior use can cross the threshold physically, while coordinated colors and materials create visual continuity even when different products are used.

This does not mean that every space must look identical. Instead, a related palette can evolve as it moves from the protected interior to more exposed outdoor environments.

Parasols and Architectural Shade

Outdoor comfort depends on shade as well as seating. Paola Lenti’s parasols and architectural elements help create protected areas for dining, conversation, and rest.

The appropriate shading solution depends on sun orientation, wind exposure, furniture placement, site conditions, and the degree of flexibility required. Freestanding structures may support changing furniture arrangements, while larger architectural elements can establish a more permanent outdoor room.

Color and material allow shade structures to become part of the overall composition rather than purely technical additions.

Italian Craftsmanship

Paola Lenti brings together textile specialists, weavers, tailors, upholsterers, architects, engineers, and skilled local craftspeople. Industrial research provides the foundation, but manual expertise gives the furniture its final character.

Handweaving, sewing, embroidery, upholstery, and surface finishing require sensitivity that cannot be separated from the design. These processes allow technical materials to feel warm, nuanced, and individual.

The company’s relationships with local specialists also support an Italian production network in which knowledge can be shared and refined over time.

Responsible Material Research

Durability is fundamental to Paola Lenti’s approach to responsible design. Products are conceived to remain useful and visually relevant rather than participate in a cycle of rapid replacement.

Mono-material and recyclable products such as those made with Twiggy and Diade simplify eventual material recovery. Proprietary yarns are engineered for performance without unnecessary additional treatments, and selected cushion fillings incorporate recycled and biodegradable polyester fibers.

The Mottainai project recovers production remnants, cords, selvedges, and textile offcuts as materials with continuing value. These resources are transformed into rugs, seating, and unique objects instead of being treated simply as waste.

Environmental attributes vary by product, so individual material composition and technical documentation should be reviewed when specifying for a project.

Residential, Hospitality and Marine Projects

Paola Lenti furniture is used in private residences, resorts, restaurants, hotels, yachts, and other demanding environments. The combination of material performance, modularity, and extensive color options makes the collection especially valuable for project work.

Modular sofas can be configured for a specific terrace or lounge, while rugs can be adapted to architectural dimensions. Coordinated seating, tables, shading, and accessories allow a large hospitality environment to maintain a consistent identity across different zones.

For marine and contract applications, designers should verify current technical data, applicable testing, exposure conditions, maintenance requirements, and installation considerations.

Selecting Paola Lenti Furniture

Begin by evaluating how the space will be used. A conversation area may benefit from a modular sofa and movable lounge chairs, while a pool deck may require chaise longues, side tables, and quick-drying textiles. Dining spaces need appropriate clearances and seating capacity.

Next, consider environmental exposure. Sun, rain, humidity, wind, salt air, tree cover, and seasonal storage can influence the best materials and protective accessories.

Color and texture should be selected using physical samples whenever possible. Digital images are useful for inspiration, but they cannot fully communicate weave, tactile quality, or subtle differences between related colors.

Care and Protection

Proper maintenance helps outdoor furniture retain its appearance and performance. Care requirements depend on the frame, upholstery, weave, tabletop, and installation environment.

Removable upholstery should be cleaned according to the instructions for the specific fabric. Woven surfaces generally benefit from regular removal of dust and environmental residue. Stone, metal, wood, and specialty finishes each require appropriate products and methods.

Protective Winter Set covers are recommended for selected collections. Covers, seasonal storage, and routine cleaning can reduce exposure to debris and extreme conditions when furniture is not in use.

Discover Paola Lenti at Scott + Cooner

Explore Paola Lenti indoor and outdoor furniture at Scott + Cooner. Discover modular sofas, lounge chairs, dining furniture, chaise longues, sculptural tables, technical textiles, and handcrafted rugs in an extraordinary range of colors and materials.

Scott + Cooner offers dedicated Paola Lenti indoor-outdoor displays at select showroom locations. Our experienced team can help homeowners, architects, and interior designers develop furniture layouts, coordinate colors and materials, compare collections, and obtain current specifications, pricing, and availability.

Contact Scott + Cooner or visit one of our showrooms to experience Paola Lenti’s distinctive approach to color, comfort, craftsmanship, and contemporary indoor-outdoor living.