Last year, Piaule Homeware founders Nolan McHugh and Trevor Briggs, along with Garrison Architects, planted some two dozen cabins on stilts across 50 acres near the town of Catskill. With their floor-to-ceiling glass walls and minimalist palette of timber and stone—and the raw cedar spa with sauna, steam room, and salt-water and cold plunge pools—Piaule Catskill is an upstate expression of Scandinavian-inspired minimalism.
That’s why their newest collaboration makes so much sense: Fritz Hansen has selected the destination to install their first outdoor range, the Skagerak Collection, including ample guest seating made with FSC and PEFC certified wood. “The thoughtful design of the landscape not only serves as the perfect backdrop for this collection,” says Chris Paulsen, vice president of Americas at Fritz Hansen, “but also evokes a deeper narrative about our connection to nature and respect for the environment.” Each piece, including the lounges lined up just beyond the cedar lounge, will gradually attain a silvery hue as the upstate elements weather them.
