Moving sale at Niche: Markdowns on high-end outdoor design

For those who take decorating their outdoor rooms as seriously as their interiors, Niche has long been a resource for big-ticket European designs. The store, which represents the work of Milan-based Italian designers Patricia Urquiola, Paola Lenti and Rodolpho Dordoni, recently moved to an indoor-outdoor space at 8770 Beverly Blvd. Now Niche owner and designer Robina Benson is discounting all the merchandise at her former location with savings by 25% to 60% in a sale that starts Monday morning.

Among the finds: Missoni Home matching sets of hand and bath towels, reduced from $104 to $78; a Planika coffee table with built-in fireplace, once $1,900, now $1,330; and designer Lenti’s Cove sunbed, slashed from $9,066 to $3,626.

The sale will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Sept. 2, at 8312 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. Phone orders can be placed at (323) 549-5399.

With a high-traffic location next to Restoration Hardware’s flagship, the new Niche showroom is well worth a look for those who are intrigued by the newest materials and fabrication techniques in outdoor furnishings — particularly Lenti’s colorful rugs and poufs made from woven rope.

With a stylishly decorated al fresco frontyard entrance — complete with modernist water feature — the store invites passersby to look, lounge and ask questions. Yes, that handsome steel and teak cabinet in the style of Florence Knoll really is meant for outdoor use.

The new Niche also is stocked with furniture and accessories seen in upscale shelter magazines from manufacturers such as the Italian rattan firm Vittorio Bonacina and the Spanish company Kettal, which produces the swing, armchair and fire pit (doubling as a coffee table) shown here.

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