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Outdoor covers allow you to enjoy your outdoor space for many months a year, creating precious corners for relaxing and pleasant shaded areas where you can protect yourself from the sun in spring or summer. Furthermore, today pergolas and garden sails are widely used to create hybrid indoor and outdoor environments where light and nature become part of a single domestic living space. If you have chosen an aluminium or wood pergola with fabric like Pergotenda® Corradi for your home garden or outdoor area, it will be useful to know how to clean the awnings on a regular basis to protect the canvas against mould and humidity, maintaining its performance and beauty over time.

In early March the prestigious Pritzker Prize was awarded, a recognition that since 1979 has celebrated the career and work of living architects who have made a substantial contribution to humanity and environmental development.

The 2018 Priztker Prize saw the triumph of the Indian architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, who over the course of his long career has designed hundreds of buildings, making the traditional and artisanal methods of his country dialogue with the techniques of prefabrication.

Living in the outdoor spaces of our homes also means being able to spend time together and relax during the evening, especially when the weather is nice. Choosing the right outdoor lighting is essential for enjoying your garden in all serenity, even after sunset many months of the year. This not just for the practical purpose of providing visibility at night, but also because a well-lit outdoor area is a safe one and therefore a place of true well-being. In addition, outdoor lighting can become a perfect decorative element if used to enhance the surrounding environment, its forms and its unique features.

Milan is a lively city, always on the move, a world landmark for trends and innovations: a city that never stops, just out of a hectic Design Week, kicked off the fuorisalone of taste this week.

Until May, 13^rd, Milan Food Week and Milan Food City are lighting up the Italian metropolis again, with a tasty program: at Palazzo Bovara, two Pergotenda^® Millenium^® Celeb recreate the ideal outdoor space for show-cooking, samplings and food talks organized by Confcommercio Milan.

The "Corradi Days" are back: it’s the event organized in Germany and Austria that keeps on gaining success year after year.

13 Master Dealers involved for an Open Day (on May, 26^th), to know all the Corradi news - such as Pergotenda^® Millenium^® Celeb - and to discover the dedicated promotions on lights, bicolor and vertical closures, valid until June, 2^nd .

Like every year, in April Milan becomes the undisputed star of one of the most important events related to the world of design and architecture at international level.

The Salone del Mobile and the Fuorisalone 2018, from 17^th to 22^nd April, have in fact animated the Milan Design Week, enhancing, once again, the central role of the city on topics such as the culture of design and the importance of the Made in Italy worldwide.

Whether it's a garden, a private courtyard or a café or restaurant terrace, your outdoor space deserves to be enhanced with covers for exteriors that are able to make the most of their distinctive traits, in harmony with the surrounding environment. There are many advantages: while on the one hand - especially in the residential sector - pergolas and canopies shape a portion of the external environment to protect people from the sun and weather and to allow them to spend more months of the year outdoors, in the commercial sector outdoor furnishings for cafés or the pergola of a restaurant have the added benefit of adding useful space. 

We have just been through what is probably one of the most severe winters of recent years. Now that Burian, the snow and the Siberian temperatures are just an icy memory, we can finally welcome the coming of spring. And what better way than to plan how to furnish a garden in spring?

Here are some tips, with the trends of 2018.