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Meridies

Meridies by Roberto Lazzeroni: embracing “la bella vita”

Spring is the season when we dream of summer. Meridies, our new outdoor collection by veteran Italian designer Roberto Lazzeroni, is a dream of summer come true. Inspired by Expormim’s signature material, rattan, but made of FSC® sapele wood, Meridies proposes a journey back in time to our childhood when after spending the morning at the beach, we would return home to have lunch and then look for a shaded place to take a nap and wait for the afternoon to cool off.

In fact, “meridies” in Latin means midday, but also the cool, shady place where one can comfortably rest during the hottest hours of the day. Meridies consists of sculptural designs crafted from FSC®-certified sapele wood. Expormim’s way of working rattan is one source of inspiration; the other would be natural elements such as petals, seeds or leaves. Through them the designer reinforces the idea of softness and lightness.

Meridies is an outdoor collection made with the finesse and the cosiness of an indoor. It’s a proposition to lay back and gaze at the stars in a pristine summer night sky savouring a glass of good wine. This is “la bella vita”.