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A collection of designer rugs with a contemporary taste that combine sobriety, refinement and naturalness: ATLAS enhances the garden furniture and offers an outdoor performance of the highest level, while maintaining a soft and elegant appearance.
The ATLAS collection develops around patterns inspired by jacquard with an exclusive but not intrusive geometric effect which combines perfectly with the style of outdoor furniture of all RODA collections, also thanks to elegant and original colour combinations.
ATLAS rugs are hand made on the loom and are characterized by a single-colored weft with sidebands of a contrasting color. The outstanding, dark grey intertwined fringes which distinguish the entire collection are always positioned along the 3mt side.
Maria Gabriella Zecca
A colour specialist and stylist who has been researching new trends for products, coordinating the corporate image of companies, and defining the aesthetics of furniture and fabric producers for many years. Her artistic and creative consultancy develops textiles and their colourways, colour charts, fabric finishes and materials for the fields of upholstered furniture and interior design. Maria Gabriella Zecca also creates sets for photography, stands and showrooms, and designs furniture and home accessories. At RODA, she has been conducting research and development for outdoor fabrics and rugs for over fifteen years. Since 2017 she has been designing them, too, and recently became part of the company team for artistic direction.
Gordon Guillaumier
Gordon Guillaumier was born in Malta in 1966, Gordon Guillaumier studied in Switzerland and England. He graduated in industrial design and the following year in a master's degree in industrial design from the Domus Academy in Milan. He began his career collaborating with Rodolfo Dordoni's Studio, where he worked on design projects with companies such as Foscarini, Artemide and FontanaArte. Later, he collaborated with Driade alongside Enrico Astori on the development of the Atlantide / Dhouse project. In 2002 he founded his Design Studio in Milan, focused on design consulting, product and interior design. His first commissions began with Dornbracht Interiors, Fiam, Rational and art direction for Pamar and designed his first products for Bosa ceramiche, Foscarini and FontanaArte for the Schopenhauer collection. He is currently art director for Desalto and Roda (together with Rodolfo Dordoni and Gabriella Zecca). His design works are part of the collections of Bosa, Paola C, Desalto, DeSede, Driade, FontanaArte, Frag, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Matteo Grassi, Montina, Minotti, Moroso, Lema, Roda, Tacchini, Foscarini, Oluce, Pamar, Azzurra Ceramiche, Kronos Ceramiche, and Ceramiche Piemme to name a few.
Roda opens a new era in the outdoor furniture field, a more contemporary dimension of living that goes beyond the borders of the home: indoor and outdoor mingle with a harmonic language, in a spatial and conceptual continuum. The company’s founder, Roberto Pompa, followed his revolutionary intuition to realized outdoor as places to be lived and enhance with refined pieces of furniture. The company’s name speaks of people and loved ones: RODA is an acronym of the names of Pompa’s family – RO for Roberto and his wife Rosaria, DA for their children Daniele and Davide. The vision and ambition held at RODA gradually became a process. This was a decade of great importance, focused on the cultural enhancement and ennoblement of a new type of outdoor furniture. In order to encompass design, a sense of conviviality, and the kind of emotions given by interiors, Rodolfo Dordoni was selected by the team as an artistic director. In 2005, RODA participated for the first time at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, while its innovative catalogue featured a clear overview of the company’s original approach to outdoor living. The fair and the catalogue were turning points that led to the global confirmation of the success of the strategy, the product, and the unusual, sophisticated combinations of materials and colours.
