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Manutti
Manutti is a designer and manufacturer of elegant and exclusive outdoor furniture with a "Made in Belgium" design. Manutti not only specialises in furniture, tables and accessories, but is also a pioneer in the field of modular sofas, designed as haute couture pieces with special attention to the finish and fine stitching in matching colours. Stephane De Winter, owner and designer of Manutti, has created a new generation of outdoor furniture. He has succeeded in transposing the concept of "indoor sitting room" to outdoors, thus creating collections, such as Zendo and Flow, with imitation leather covers and finishes with fine stitching in matching colours which transcend their ultimate purpose and bring a touch of class and elegance to gardens and terraces all over the world.

Calma

Calma, the new outdoor furniture brand, has been developed by a group of outdoor furniture sector experts. Their experience and career have motivated them to carry out this project from the own brand's corporate identity, design, production and release of each product, to its distribution in specialized international and domestic markets.

This project originates from L'Empordà, land known for the "Tramontana" (strong northern wind which enlivens the mind as well as the body), its Mediterranean environment and its places famous for  inventions and originality...
 

 

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Aborit

Prostor is a Belgian manufacturer of innovative, multifunctional parasol systems suitable for big and small sized terraces. More than 30 years of experience. The trademark Prostor gathers different types of parasols and their accessories. Prostor is also a well-known partner of the gastronomy (hotel, bar) business. The keys for developing our products are user-friendliness, durability and design. A team of engineers guarantees the quality of the current products and forms the basis for the development of new products. The Brutsaert group recently expanded with a new production hall of 18.000m². Due to this expansion to 35.000 m², the Group is able to make quality products within the shortest possible delivery time.

Mathieu Mategot

Mathieu Matégot died in february 2001 at Angers, France. After his studies at the school of fine arts and architecture in Budapest, he began to create sets for the National Theater. He settled in France in 1931, where he took up various professions, creating sets for the Folies Bergères, window dresser for the Lafayette Galleries, fashion designer for dressmaking firms in Paris. After the second world war, he set up a workshop for handcrafted furniture in Paris. He used materials such as metal, rattan, glass, Formica, and perforated sheet metal in particular, to design chairs, armchairs, tables, serving tables, sideboards, desks and useful articles.

His activity as designer spanned a relativity short period, up to the beginning of the 1960's. During this period, he created the three-legged chair "nagasaki" (1954) and the "copacabana" armchair (1955/1956) that are today part of the design collection at the Museum of Decoratives Arts in Paris and the design collection at the Georges Pompidou Centre, National Museum of Modern Art, Industrial centre, Beaubourg, Paris. These two pieces made in steel tube and perforated sheet metal, materials that were first used by Mathieu Matégot, are particulary representative of his work. During this decade, he also designed several decoration sites at Paris and overseas: Hotel de France at Conakry, Drugstrore Publicis, Paris, Maison de l'ORTF, Paris 1962. The Matégot's stand is present at all great events like "Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, SAD, Paris, or "Salon des Arts Ménagers", Paris. He was with Prouvé, Perriand, Royère, Adnet and the ceramist Georges Jouve in development of various projects, one of the most renowned french designer of this time.

His activity as designer spanned a relativity short period, up to the beginning of the 1960's. During this period, he created the three-legged chair "nagasaki" (1954) and the "copacabana" armchair (1955/1956) that are today part of the design collection at the Museum of Decoratives Arts in Paris and the design collection at the Georges Pompidou Centre, National Museum of Modern Art, Industrial centre, Beaubourg, Paris. These two pieces made in steel tube and perforated sheet metal, materials that were first used by Mathieu Matégot, are particulary representative of his work. During this decade, he also designed several decoration sites at Paris and overseas: Hotel de France at Conakry, Drugstrore Publicis, Paris, Maison de l'ORTF, Paris 1962. The Matégot's stand is present at all great events like "Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, SAD, Paris, or "Salon des Arts Ménagers", Paris. He was with Prouvé, Perriand, Royère, Adnet and the ceramist Georges Jouve in development of various projects, one of the most renowned french designer of this time.

In early 60's, he deliberately stopped this activity to devote himself to tapestry work. His first cartoons were woven in Aubusson, France, in 1945. He worked with Jean Lurçat, Marcel Grommaire, Mario Prassinos and many others to modernize contemporary french tapestry. Many of his exhibitions got him recognition all over the world and particulary in Paris at La Demeure gallery. His tapestries can be seen in several places: at the Woolmark Head Office at London, the Bank of International Settlements at Basel, International Monetary Fund at Washington, National Library of Australia at Camberra, Rouen préfecture, France.