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Sutherland's Great Lakes Collection is Outdoor Sustainable Beauty

Filed under: Decor

Sutherland Furniture, recently known for the Sutherland by Starck RobinWood Deluxe Collection, will be introducing a new outdoor collection at the Pacific Design Center's WestWeek later this month. Designed by Terry Hunziker, the Great Lakes series aims to install sustainability and style in your back yard. Manufactured from Ecoplex – which sounds like an apartment block in a jungle but is actually a composite made up of 97% recycled plastic – and cast aluminum that can be powdercoated in Bronze, Sand Dollar, Storm, and Chalk finishes.

Hunziker, known for a "visual vocabulary that speaks to the natural setting with sophisticated restraint," has put together a softly geometric line with "generous proportions" in the Great Lakes collection. Pieces include a lounge chair and ottoman, an extension dining table that reaches ten feet in length when needed, a bar table, a sofa and an armless chaise. The texture and finishes need only soap and water to keep clean and are highly resistant to moisture, fading, insects, splintering, and warping.

No word on pricing, but they'll be available for interior designers and architects and can be viewed at the PDC and at the Sutherland Furniture site from March 24.

Gallery: Sutherland Furniture's Great Lakes Outdoor Collection

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Maltese Falcon Designer's 1920s-Style Superyacht Inspired by JFK

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Filed under: Yachts & Sailing

Ken Freivokh, designer of the famed Maltese Falcon, the world's largest, most high-tech, beautiful and costliest sailing yacht, has gone classic for his latest project, the 1920's-inspired superyacht Sycara IV (above). The 151-ft. luxury yacht, built by the Burger Boat Company in Wisconsin, is designed to cruise the Great Lakes in high style and is partly inspired by John F. Kennedy's yacht the Honey Fitz. The aluminum-bodied craft resembles a classic wooden motor yacht with a schooner bow and fantail hull. The Art Deco-inspired interior woodwork is a masterpiece of handcrafted mahogany and madrone burl, with ebony, sycamore and padouk accents highlighted with stainless steel details in scores of inlays and moldings. Lalique bathroom fixtures are the finishing Deco touch. Of course she's also equipped with every bit of state-of-the-art tech you'd expect in a modern superyacht.

[via JamesList]

Tags: Art Deco, ArtDeco, Great Lakes, GreatLakes, John F. Kennedy, JohnF.Kennedy, Ken Freivokh, KenFreivokh, Lalique, Maltese Falcon, MalteseFalcon, superyacht, Wisconsin, yacht