Varaschin
Italian outdoor collections in aluminium, steel and teak — 87 collections, 687 pieces indexed.
The house
As printed — Varaschin — Landscapes 2021. The page and its photography remain © Varaschin. Open it in the reader.
summer setVaraschin
Lounge armchair
lounge & deep seating · steel · Ref vr-lounge-armchair
The Summer Set Lounge & Ottoman is a more comfortable and more generous declension of the collection Summer Set, which takes back the characteristics of the mesh structure with cushion, within a modern expression more luxurious and timeless. By the time, the collection was extended with a number of new items, stools, armchairs, rocking chairs, sofa, developing its strong and characteristic identity.
Christophe Pillet on the SUMMER SET collection as a whole — not a description of this piece.
MADE TO ORDERShips from Italy · 12–16 weeks door-to-door
Materialsteel
teakaluminiumfabricmetalsolid woodsteel
As printed71 68 58 78 39
Width71 cm
Depth68 cm
Height78 cm
Seat height 39 cm
Height convention, as printed
“Altezza riferita senza top” — Height reported without top. The book’s own note, printed at reader p. 95.
Custom cushionsMade to order for this frame, in your chosen fabric — commission cushions, or read Cushions & comfort below.
Full specification
- Materials
- tondino di acciaio cataforesi verniciato a polveri
- Material family
- steel
- Fabric
- —
- Cushion code
- —
- Customer's own material
- —
- Typology, as supplied
- poltrona lounge / lounge armchair
- Features
- low version
- Handling & storage
- Not stated on this piece’s record — which is not the same as ruled out. Ask us and we will confirm with the factory.
- Working height
- No bar or counter working height on this piece’s record.
- Record notes
- CATALOGUE-FACT NAME+DIMS PAIR: English name "Lounge armchair" printed beside its dimensioned drawing on render p102 (printed 200-201). 58 is the back height. Same callout set repeats unlabelled on the opener render p095.
The SUMMER SET collection, in the book
19 pieces indexed across 15 spreads (reader pp. 95–109). Credited to Christophe Pillet.
The book prints one finish system for the whole range — 31 finishes across 12 printed families.
This is the house palette, keyed to the range rather than to this piece: it is what the book says the collections can be finished in, not a stock list. Which finish this piece is built in is confirmed on the technical sheet.
Frame — gamba / legAlluminio verniciato a polveri5
The structure powder-coat, with the RAL reference the maker prints against each colour.
BiancoRAL 9003
Grigio setaRAL 7044
GrigioRAL 7022
MokaRAL 8022
NeroRAL 9005- cinque colori dell'intreccio EMMA CROSS / EMMA CROSS weave, 5 colours
- corda intreccio EMMA, due toni / EMMA cords, two standard tones
- 6 colori della struttura EMMA SUNSCREEN / 6 colours of the EMMA SUNSCREEN structure
- colorazioni bianco e nero TIBIDABO / TIBIDABO black and white colorings
- struttura bianco / WHITE STRUCTURE
- struttura grigio seta / SILK GREY STRUCTURE
- struttura grigio / GREY STRUCTURE
- alluminio verniciato bianco / white powder-coated aluminium
- GRIGIO / GREY
- TAUPE / TAUPE
- BRONZO / BRONZE
- BEIGE/BIANCO / BEIGE-WHITE
- GRIGIO / GREY
- TORTORA / TAUPE
- BRONZO/TABACCO / BRONZE-TOBACCO
- OTTANIO/BRONZO / TEAL-BRONZE
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO moka / dark brown
- CERAMIC / CERAMICA grey porphyry / porfido grigio
- HPL corten
- IROKO
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO bronze / bronzo
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO grey / grigio
- CERAMIC / CERAMICA lime white / bianco calce
- TEAK
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO silk grey / grigio seta
- HPL bedonia
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO Black / nero
- HPL cement / cemento
- HPL silk grey / grigio seta
- CERAMIC / CERAMICA dark stone / grigio scuro
- ALUMINIUM / ALLUMINIO white / bianco
Printed colours are approximate — specify against a physical sample.
The finish plates, in the bookCushion thickness is deck arithmetic, not a style choice: the maker builds the bare frame deck low or high knowing what will sit on it, and the cushion is the remainder to a comfortable finished seat. That is why a dining pad runs thin and deep seating runs thick — neither is an upgrade on the other.
- For a lounge or deep seating
- 10–13 cm, seat and back — the frame deck is built low on purpose — the cushion, not the frame, sets the finished seat height.
- Core
- Exposed pieces take an open-cell, fast-draining (reticulated) core: water passes straight through instead of pooling in the foam. A crowned profile sheds standing water by geometry. Neither makes a cushion waterproof — outdoor builds drain, they do not seal.
- Fabric
- Outdoor cloth earns its keep in the fibre. Solution-dyed yarn carries its pigment all the way through the fibre, so colour survives sun and scrubbing; surface-dyed cloth wears its colour off. Performance fabrics are water-resistant rather than waterproof, and mildew grows on dirt sitting on the cloth, not in the fibre itself — which is why the published care is washing, drying and standing a soaked cushion on edge to drain.
- Patterns & your own fabric
- Fabrics and patterns are fully specifiable — plains, stripes and prints, with repeat, direction and railroading captured in the brief so a pattern lands straight on every panel. Many pieces also accept customer’s own material (C.O.M.) — the brief asks rather than assumes.
As the maker dimensions it
Commission custom cushionsWhere Varaschin publishes a cushion thickness, it prints on the product sheet’s own elevation: TIBIDABO sofa 14 cm over a 28 cm deck, BABYLON sofa 15 cm, CRICKET settee 9 cm on a sculpted shell, TIBIDABO dining armchair 8 cm. Most sheets print seat height only — where no figure is printed, none is claimed here.
Made to order through our supplier workshops — sized to this frame, in your chosen fabric, from a thin dining pad to a full deep-seating build.
Technical sheet issued on request, per piece.
Sheets are issued per piece against the current supplier revision, so the drawing you receive matches what will be built, not an older press.
Request technical sheetThis record was indexed from LANDSCAPES 2021/2022, reader p. 102 (printed 200–201).
The book is on the site in full — open the page this piece is printed on. The book and every page of it remain © Varaschin.
Open the page in the readerPlan and elevation are generated from the verified dimensions on this page.
- MODELLO REGISTRATO / REGISTERED MODEL
- Registered-design notice printed at the foot of the collection description on the openers of EMMA (render p004), EMMA CROSS (p031), EMMA SUNSCREEN (p046), TIBIDABO (p051), SUMMER SET (p095), CRICKET (p110), BABYLON (p127), SYSTEM STAR (p136), SYSTEM (p144), BARCODE (p155) and BALI (p163). NOT printed on the BELT opener (render p073) — BELT is the one collection in part 1 whose opener carries no registered-model line.
- teak di piantagione certificata / certified plantation teak
- Timber sourcing claim printed on the SYSTEM opener (render p144, for the optional teak bench seat), the BARCODE opener (p155, whole collection) and the BALI opener (p163, whole collection). Printed wording: "teak di piantagione certificata" / "plantation certified solid teak" / "solid teak wood from certified plantation". No certification scheme or certificate number is printed.
- soluzioni d'arredo / MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS (BELT)
- BELT carries two configuration-reference spreads, render p089 (printed 174-175) and render p093 (printed 182-183). Each prints eight plan-view sofa layouts labelled /01 to /08. NO article codes and NO dimensions are printed on either spread — they are layout inspiration only, not a parts list.
- MODELLO REGISTRATO / REGISTERED MODEL
- Registration statement printed on the technical spreads of BALI BERGÈRE DECK RELAX, NOSS, CLEVER, LINK, LAPIS, BENTO, PLINTO, BAHIA, MAAT and KOLONAKI. SMART instead prints 'MATERIALE REGISTRATO / REGISTERED MATERIAL' (referring to VAR#TEX, not the model).
- LINK extendable mechanism
- Dedicated spread 'link allungabile / EXTENDABLE TABLE' (printed 404-405) showing the 200x100 H73 in three states: closed 200, one 55 cm leaf to 255, two 55 cm leaves to 310. The photo captions are printed '200 mm / 255 mm / 310 mm' — evidently centimetres given the icons and the rest of the catalogue; recorded as printed, not corrected.
- BENTO composition rules
- 'soluzioni d'arredo / MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS' (printed 470-471): nine worked composition diagrams labelled /01 to /09 built from the seven BENTO modules. The prose states the customer may re-arrange purchased modules repeatedly and add further modules later, 'rispettando semplicemente le regole di composizione / following the possible options available'. Caption: 'DIVANO BENTO - TAVOLINO BELT - PANCA SYSTEM'.
- CARPET material specification
- 'Tappeti per esterno realizzati con fibre sintetiche, non-assorbenti e altamente resistenti all'azione degli agenti atmosferici. 100% Polipropilene / Outdoor carpet in synthetic fibers, non absorbent and highly resistant to bad weather. 100% Polypropelene' (spelling as printed).
- TRAMA material specification
- 'Coperta per esterno con lavorazione maglia rasata. Composizione 100% Olyna. / Outdoor knitted blanket made of 100% Olyna.' Size 170x120 cm, five printed colourways.
- COVER — protective covers programme
- Custom-made covers cut to the ordered sofa composition and produced at the same time as the sofa. 100% polyester, 180 g/m2, light grey, one side coated with acrylic resin, Teflon stain-repellent and oil/water-repellent treatment. Tested to UNI EN 20811 (water permeability): water column greater than 1000 mm.
From the care & technical pages of LANDSCAPES 2021/2022 — the maker’s own text.
- Brand
- Varaschin · Italy
- Collection
- summer set
- Designer
- Christophe Pillet
- Category
- Lounge & deep seating
- Status
- Current range
- Certifications
- None recorded
- Suited to
- Hotels & Resorts · Workplace
- Reference
- The book prints no article code for this piece; the reference below is our own index key, stated as such.
- Name, as printed
- Printed in the book, as shown above.
- Our reference
- vr-lounge-armchair
Christophe Pillet
No portrait of this designer is held on file, so the panel carries the initials instead of a borrowed likeness.
The designers
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