You might worry about a collaboration involving two Turkish designers, one Spanish designer and one Portuguese designer. How is the end product going to look? Vaguely Moorish? Eur-Afro-Asian? As it turns out, Autoban by De La Espada — the collaboration in question — manages to produce some very un-muddled looking furniture. The pieces seem to have influences as diverse as flora, fauna and chess, but never look confused. For example, the Deer chair evokes its namesake perfectly, from its thin arms and legs, to its knobby joints, to its timid stance; click over and take a gander at Mushroom Family, Pumpkin and King.

Autoban consists of Turkish designers Seyhan Ozdemir and Sefer Caglar, who enjoy working with natural materials and have been loved up by the press so much that we’re actually starting to get embarrassed for them. De La Espada, the other half of the collaboration, is Luis De Oliveira and Fatima De La Espada. They’ve been around since 1996, with a flagship store in London and factories in Spain and Portugal. Variety, it seems, really is the spice of life.

Related: Atlantico

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that some of our favorite furniture designs come from luxury brand Atlantico. Made by London-based De La Espada, the Atlantico line is simple, minimalist, solidly built, made with sustainability harvested timber, and is at once modern and traditional. Atlantico recently introduced 7 new designs including a laptop console (shown here), and a beautiful bed (shown after the jump). An increasing number of retailers across the U.S. and Canada are carrying Atlantico– you can find out where to buy their new items by visiting their website. Lucky for me, there’s an Atlantico retailer in Colorado.
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The great folks at Atlantico just launched a bigger and better redesigned website. There are even a few pieces on it that I haven’t seen before–gorgeous stuff. If you’re looking for simple, minimalist and quality furniture Atlantico is for you. This is a company which was born from “thinking about what they wanted their houses to be like; calm, pleasant and comfortable”.

Atlantico has a line of simple and minimalist European Ash wood furniture. The company was born from “thinking about what they wanted their houses to be like; calm, pleasant and comfortable”. For that reason, their product designs are extremely simple, and quality. They’re all made in limited runs, in fact– the Atlantico factory literally buys whole logs, and they’re “quarter-sawn” to specifications, before they are dried in the kiln. Although the Williamsburg based design companies furniture is minimalist– I still find it, as they put it, “warm, inviting, and human”. They do furniture for sleeping, lounging, and dining.