Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain
Designed by José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales, creative director of Gandía Blasco, the Pergolas Collection allows the comfort and privacy necessary to enjoy the outdoors year-round, no matter the weather.
Behind its serene, timeless, and universal forms, it can be guessed the inspiration in the basic geometry and the nakedness of the Ibizan vernacular architecture, as well as the roots in the Mediterranean lifestyle and its irrevocable desire to enjoy outdoor time all year round.
The designer is passionate about outdoor life, defines them as a contemporary review of traditional wooden porch and pergola, and highlights their versatility and transformative power.
The wide variety of modules available and their versatile nature make the modular pergolas system a true generator of scenes or environments of all kinds that plays a key role in the composition of exteriors for their functionality.
Pergola becomes an extension of the living space, a delimiter of areas and uses, a private shelter, a canopy to protect from the direct incidence of the sun and reduce the ambient temperature while letting the air pass.
Thus, they are ideal for shady areas, places of passage, porches, bars and dining rooms, areas for relaxation.
The combinations are multiple and adapt to the demands of each case, integrating with sobriety and harmony in the environment.
But in addition to allowing endless configuration possibilities, Pergola has a high aesthetic component and is ultra-customizable thanks to its catalog of finishes, materials, and colors in fabrics, structures, and enclosures.
The linear and architectural structures of Pergola can be presented in the classic anodized and natural aluminum finishes —a modern and especially resistant material that brings freshness and lightness— or with white, sand, olive green, terracotta, bronze and grey thermo-lacquers in different shades… a collection of colors that sums up about twenty tones.
On the other hand, the mats and cushions offer an immense color range—with up to 74 shades—organized in three thematic lines: Náutica, Soft and Warm.
The latter includes the innovative patio fabric, a super-resistant technical fabric for outdoor use developed by the Danish firm Kvadrat and available in 9 shades.
Finally, and as for the enclosures, the series includes the option of horizontal and vertical fixed blades, the plastic fabric blind, the curtains of 100% acrylic fabric—in two tones—and, as a novelty, the perforated sheet, available only for pergolas with floor produced in Nowood.
Customization options are the most inspiring. From cubic compositions that are camouflaged in the environment with the gray-wood-olive trichromia to creations that transport us to the origins of the designer only based on luminous white and silver for structures, floors, and fabrics.
In different combinations we see declined gray ranges (bluish-cement-anthracite) or earth (orange- brown-terracotta-bronze), sometimes generating contrasts with shades like white and, on other occasions, offering only slight variations in color.
After nearly 20 years of studying the structure’s potential, Gandía-Blasco Canales’ collection allows fast and efficient assembly of the pergolas without the need to build any support structure or maintenance.
Pergolas represent the Mediterranean lifestyle with a spacious, energy-efficient, multipurpose modular system that allows for the creation of all types of spaces.
Project: Pergolas
Designer: José A. Gandía-Blasco Canales
Manufacturer: Gandía Blasco S.A.
