kettal bitta

named after a mooring post

Bitta means mooring in Italian. Dordoni wanted a braid as dense as the ropes that tie boats to a quay, yet open enough to let air through. The weave carries your weight and the cushions sit on top, so after a summer storm the seat drains and dries instead of holding water.

The collection covers a full outdoor room. There are sofas in two sizes, a modular sofa and a modular two seater, an armchair, dining chairs, a stool and a footstool, a garden bed, two sun loungers and two hanging chairs. Tables come as an extending dining table in teak and aluminum, an extending marble dining table and a marble side table. The Kettal Bitta club armchair has a deeper seat than the dining chair, and the garden bed is the piece people call the Kettal Bitta daybed.

Frames are aluminum, which does not rust, so the aluminum patio furniture question most coastal buyers ask is settled before you pick a color. Cushion covers are mass-dyed acrylic fabric: the color goes through the fiber, so sun fades it far more slowly than printed cloth.

Two more Dordoni families share the same braid and frame logic: Bitta Lounge, built around upholstered sofas and a garden bed on castors, and Grand Bitta, a sofa and armchair family with its own garden bed.

A braid dense enough to hold you, open enough to dry.