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APRIL 2012
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HEMISPHERESMAGAZINE.COM
Look on the
Bright Side
Splashy umbrellas provide
color therapy for dingy days
1.
Bad weather is beyond human control, but
you know what isn’t? Flocks of gloomy black
bumbershoots jostling one another over a
field of wet concrete. Imagine if everyone were
instead carrying bright red umbrellas decorated
with giant dahlias, like this Paso i Ombrelli
number. Ah, that’s be er.
$180 / paso iombrelli.com
2.
While many luxury umbrellas
return to hardy woods for classic
appeal, Davek has integrated
technology with tradition. In
its Elite line, a flexible “wind-
tension system” of ribs leads into
a fiberglass sha with a bu ery
leather handle.
$149 / davekny.com
3.
The Roman-style border
on this Oertel model is not
printed on but woven into the
canopy fabric, which is just
one of the details that make it
more elegant than your average
drugstore rain cover. Others
include a malacca cane handle
and bend-proof steel sha .
$166 / european-umbrellas.com
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