Casualife

Custom & contract — Melbourne

From your drawing to the terrace, set for its first evening.

Custom furniture, umbrellas and shade, cushions and soft goods — and your existing pieces refurbished.

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A rooftop restaurant terrace under a retractable pergola, laid with dark pyramid-base dining tables and woven dining chairs, overlooking a coastal town's terracotta rooftops, a bell tower and the sea beyond
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What the studio makes

Four capabilities, one resolved scheme.

Made to your specification with our production partners — drawn, sampled and priced before anything is committed.

Straight Modular sofa, iSiMAR

Custom furniture

Catalogue pieces adapted to the plan — a lower seat, a longer run, a table sized to the room — or built to your own drawing. Banquettes, lounge and bar seating, and dining tables made to the dimension you give us.

Quoted per brief

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Om umbrella, CALMA

Umbrellas & shade

Centre-pole and cantilever umbrellas, canopies re-covered in the cloth and span your scheme calls for, and fixed shade made to order. Engineering documentation comes per structure, on request.

Quoted per brief

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Niza Armchair, iSiMAR

Cushions & soft goods

Seat and back cushions, squabs, bolsters and sunbed pads — cut, filled and covered to your measurements in marine-grade foam and outdoor cloth. Existing frames welcome; send the dimensions or the cushion.

Quoted per brief

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Fabric & C.O.M.

Choose from the outdoor fabric library, or send your own — C.O.M., customer’s own material, is standard here, with meterage returned on the spec sheet. Weave, grade and care notes come with the choice, so the cloth on your board is the cloth that arrives.

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How a commission runs

Five steps, nothing committed until you sign it off.

A commercial project is a sequence, not a leap. Each stage is agreed before the next begins.

Brief

Tell us the project, the venue type, the covers and the month you need it. Plans, mood images, a fabric direction — however resolved or rough.

Drawings & materials

We return drawings and a material schedule — timber, metal, fabric, finish — for sign-off. Nothing is committed until the scheme is agreed.

Sample / prototype

For bespoke pieces a sample or full prototype confirms comfort, scale and detail before the run. C.O.M. is proofed here too.

Production

Made to order with our production partners once the prototype is approved.

Lead time is quoted per brief — counted door-to-door, and never sold as a promise we can’t keep. Production time is added in front of the freight window.

Delivery & install

Delivered to site and installed, the freight window told straight at quote.

Indent lanes told straight — Indonesia 10–14 weeks door-to-door · Europe 12–16 weeks, Cape-routed · accessories air-freight 3–5 weeks. Weeks door-to-door only; production time is quoted separately, in front.

Care & Refresh — the years after delivery

We refurbish existing pieces — quoted per piece — with new upholstery, and updated or new fabric selections to suit each project, current or past.

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Send us your inquiry and project details.

01 — The project

Required — where your reply goes. Everything else on the brief is optional.

Files locally in this browser and reaches us when you submit it. Skip any step but the address; the brief files whenever you are ready.

Cushions can also be started directly, without a contract brief: Custom fabrics on hand, Cushions from the ranges and Supply your own fabric.