The collaboration between Expormim and Palomba Serafini Associati continues to evolve, giving rise to new and elegant solutions for outdoor furniture.
On the occasion of Salone del Mobile 2025, the studio presents two new dining armchairs from the Obi collection
The difference between the two variants lies in the base design: one version has four slender, slightly tapered legs. The other features a sled base, ensuring greater stability.
Both versions introduce a new Premium belt—a wider, meticulously hand-stitched band that further enhances the product’s aesthetics, blending contemporary elegance with a nod to Japanese tradition.
The two new models share the distinctive feature of the entire collection: the elastic band that wraps around the backrest and armrests, reminiscent of the obi, the belt of traditional Japanese garments, which according to custom must always be different in colors and themes from the Kimono. This band, made of waterproof fabric or leather, characterizes the collection with a distinctive element, generating interesting chromatic and material variations.
In addition to the sofa and armchairs, the architects have expanded the range by introducing a chaise-longue and a sun bed, thus confirming the intention to create outdoor pieces that are as elegant and enveloping as indoor ones.
This vision perfectly embodies the Spanish tradition of the siesta, which inevitably moves outdoors with the arrival of sping and summer.
Both the daybed and the chaise-lounge, like the sofa and armchairs, are characterized by an injection-molded aluminum structure, 100% recyclable and highly technological, designed to support soft padding and cushions with light and elegant tones.
Ludovica Serafini and Roberto Palomba translated this iconic piece into an elastic band that encircles the back cushions of the sofa and armchairs in the collection. In its utmost simplicity, this simple band made of waterproof fabric or leather generates chromatic and material variations and becomes a distinctive element of the collection, a detail that makes it recognizable.
The obi belt is that tiny breaking element and component of chaos that defines beauty as a variation of the established order.
