I’d bet the two most popular materials in hot, design-savvy climates are concrete and silicone. Concrete, for its natural ability to keep you cool, and silicone, (for its not-so-natural ability) to keep you hot. Although Singapore designers Cici Chen and Lui Honfay of Cilicon Faytory have not intentionally wanted their designs compared to Le Corbusier or lip injections, their new Squeeze and Mushroom Collections have recently “lifted” the concrete furniture scene to new levels.

Mushrooms. Designed by Cilicon Faytory.

Admittedly eying their own Asian market before going worldwide, the duo may find that California’s design style and appreciation for every kind of garden works well with the simple structures. In fact, both Squeeze and Mushroom come with a special sealing agent applied to keep them virtually free of maintenance and perfect for both indoor or outdoor, public or residential use.

In the Squeeze Collection, simple lines and round edges give the appearance of a weighty, concrete park bench. Thankfully for your indecisive moments, each Squeeze piece is transported to instantly reconfigure any setting – embracing chance instead of dreading it. The Squeeze Collection comes in a two-seater, bench, stool, and coffee table and the colors vary from off-whites and tan shades, to grays and greens.

The Mushroom Collection is best recognized for the perfect, giant mushroom stool seat, but also comes in the two-seater and bench seating. The colors are the same as the Squeeze Collection – offering quite the variety to spruce up your indoor or outdoor space – but the shapes in the Mushroom Collection are much more abstract, coming in jesting, cloud-like shapes.

Squeeze. Designed by Cilicon Faytory.

Mushroom. Designed by Cilicon Faytory.

Squeeze. Designed by Cilicon Faytory.

Mushroom. Designed by Cilicon Faytory.

As youthful as their designs may seem, take a look at the Cilicon Faytory website and you’ll see Chen and Honfay put their serious side into sustainability. Using environmentally-friendly materials like coconut fiber and rubber wood in some of their furniture designs, they also sustain their overall practice by designing public spaces, fashionable rainboots, and through architectural projects that are currently under construction in Kuala Lampur.

Although Singapore is not Hollywood, Cilicon Faytory would shine with a bit of your garden’s limelight.