Australians have a legendary relationship with the outdoors—long lunches, beach swims, backyard cricket, barbecues that start at midday and drift well past dark. What’s less romantic is the sun and weather that come with it. Australia’s outdoor conditions are just as intense, and considerably less kind to outdoor furniture: harsh UV, salt air, sudden downpours, the works.Every summer, Australians have the same argument with their furniture: the outdoor setting that looked fine in the showroom, and then faded, rusted or simply stopped being comfortable by January. Jardan’s new Shoreline collection reads like a direct answer to that problem—the Melbourne brand’s latest outdoor offering that translates almost four decades of indoor design conviction into sofas, lounge chairs, dining and occasional tables and sun loungers, all engineered for exposed, sun-drunk Australian conditions and unmistakably Jardan in its handling of colour, form and material. This Yellowtrace Promotion is supported by Jardan. Like everything we do, our partner content is carefully curated to maintain the utmost relevance to our audience. Thank you for supporting the brands that support Yellowtrace. DISCOVER MORE The collection’s flexibility hero is the Cosmo Sofa, offered across up to 39 modular elements. It’s a properly serious system—configurable, tight and intimate for a balcony, or sprawling across a resort-scale terrace—built on a spotted gum frame in new Natural and Amber oil finishes, with a steel arm that takes either an upholstered bolster or a timber table insert.Where Cosmo handles scale, the Cecil Sunlounger handles personality. Drawing on the loose glamour of Riviera hotels, Cecil pairs a spotted gum frame with striped outdoor webbing, plus optional wheels, a side table and a personal choice of fabric, until the whole thing feels entirely bespoke. It’s the collection’s clearest colour statement—proof that outdoor furniture doesn’t need to disappear into beige to survive the weather. Elsewhere, the material story keeps unfolding. The Mimi Sofa brings that same lathe-turned spotted gum joinery to a softer, more gathered upholstery form, while Clem’s hand-trowelled microcement top sits alongside Elio, Soren Outdoor and Taro’s shared language of powder-coated aluminium and travertine-finished porcelain.Luma and the sprawling Nilo range close things out in aluminium and woven rope, built as much for hospitality fit-outs as backyards.That balance—of performance and personality—is the whole pitch. Shoreline isn’t outdoor furniture that’s been made to merely survive an Australian summer. It’s furniture that’s been designed for one. DISCOVER MORE [Images courtesy of Jardan.] Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Δ