Enduring quality and style through relentless innovation

Tropitone innovation has changed the face of the aluminum outdoor patio furniture industry. Again and again. Innovation in design. Innovation in materials. Innovation in finishes. Innovations that have made us a leader in the aluminum outdoor patio furniture industry. These innovations have included the beauty and lasting strength of powder coating, stronger tube-in-tube joints, strikingly realistic faux-stone and tile tabletops, marine-grade stainless hardware - the list goes on. Today, the Tropitone tradition of innovation lives on in the design and manufacture of casual indoor and outdoor patio furniture, pool furniture, contract and hospitality furnishings, patio umbrellas, market umbrellas and shade solutions.

Tropitone can help you create living solutions for outdoor spaces with outdoor patio furniture design collections from gracious traditional looks in highly-detailed cast aluminum to contemporary choices at home in the most modern surroundings. Tropitone also offers the widest section of styles, finishes, colors and fabrics. Which makes just about everything we build a custom design.

We go to these lengths for only one reason. To help you create the perfect outdoor environment. With outdoor patio furniture that always lives up to your standard of timeless style, and to anyone's standard of uncompromising quality.

Tropitone outdoor patio furniture is available through top commercial designers, or our network of exclusive outdoor furnishings dealers. Quality and style, backed by a family tradition of innovation and customer service. If you're designing a destination resort, or simply creating your own backyard destination, you deserve the comforts of Tropitone.

Elemental Quality Meets Graceful Style.

The poetry of timeless style must be spoken in the language of quality. Not satisfied with the trend of the moment, Tropitone leads in the role of tastemaker and innovator, creator of timeless grace. Never merely following the whim of fashion, Tropitone always focuses on creating exquisitely stylish products of uncompromising quality. The keywords in Tropitone's language of quality are unmatched design, uncompromised materials, traditional craftsmanship, and fine finishes. Our attention to detail, our passion for precision, and our uncompromising commitment also mean Tropitone offers the best warranty in the business - 15 years for residential users, 5 years in even the toughest hotel poolside environment.

Expressive Design

At Tropitone, we believe that just as great design is the heart of all fine furnishings, exceptional comfort must be the soul of casual furniture. So inviting comfort and exquisite style infuse everything we do - creating great collections, hand-crafted one item at a time, to quality standards that are unmatched in the industry. Tropitone builds furniture for more outdoor applications, to compliment more architectural styles, and, at the same time, offers a broader range of colors, fabrics and finishes than any other maker of aluminum outdoor patio furniture. With careful attention to scale, proportion, and ornamental detail, every piece of Tropitone outdoor patio furniture expresses a rare sense of appropriateness. The results are designs that tempt today and delight with timeless design tomorrow. The Tropitone design legacy is virtually a complete history of notable design innovation in outdoor patio furniture throughout the decades.

Whether an internal Tropitone design or an original from a celebrated designer, every piece of Tropitone aluminum outdoor patio furniture celebrates a spirit of comfortable quality that is uniquely Tropitone.

A Material Difference

From the early days of outdoor furniture manufacturing, the search for attractive, durable materials has been one of the obvious, but also most difficult, challenges. Long regarded as one of the company's strengths, Tropitone continues to buy the highest quality materials specifically suited to each item's individual form and function. Everyone at Tropitone - from Engineering to Sales to Design to Manufacturing Executive staff play key roles in choosing the quality materials that go into crafting our products. These materials include pure ingot aluminum for the finest detail. Thicker, more durable, more UV-resistant vinyl straps. All stainless steel fasteners, hardware and fittings. High-density nylon bushings and glides, never cheaper, fast-wearing plastic.

Tropitone's effort to define the state of the art in outdoor patio furniture materials for more than 50 years has helped us develop deep relationships with a broad range of superior suppliers of superior products. And the result is worth the work. Because Tropitone furniture is not only beautiful, but ruggedly functional. To us, that's the difference between art and industry.

Uncompromising Craftsmanship

While great design and quality materials create the potential for beauty, craftsmanship determines whether that potential is achieved. That's why every piece of Tropitone furniture is hand crafted and hand finished. It begins with the frame, the foundation of our furniture: bending or casting the highest quality aluminum extrusions and ingots. Elegance and beauty are applied to the surface of our frames with hand applied powder coat finishes and patinas. Durability supports beauty with our double wrapped vinyl frames tube-within-a-tube construction, and full circumference welds. Beauty meets comfort as our hand tailored cushions and sling seats complete our stylish furniture. Regardless of the design you select, you can be sure that every piece of our outdoor furniture is touched dozens of times by people who care. People who are masters of their craft, who are given the time to do the job right. And it shows. In furniture

that's beautiful the first day, and even more beautiful as each passing day reveals its timeless quality.

The Finishing Touch

The search for beauty is often lost in the final stages of the finishing process. With that in mind, Tropitone still prefers the old fashioned method of working with our suppliers to custom-create every finish we offer. As well as carefully selecting and extensively testing each of the more than 200 outdoor fabrics we offer. Tropitone remains a pioneer in the development of the powder coat finishing process we introduced to the aluminum outdoor patio furniture industry in 1969. Most recently, we have implemented a five-step wash process that guarantees an even longer lasting finish than before. We also continue to offer an ever-increasing palette of colors, styles and textures ranging from sleek and sophisticated, to charming antique patinas. Once the hallmark of a few small custom shops, these remarkable finish colors and textures add a deeply sophisticated design element

to outdoor rooms in styles from the most elegantly traditional to the most daring contemporary.

Tropitone is continuing our history of design and quality innovation with our new Color Families of outdoor furniture fabrics. These collections of complimentary fabrics will inspire even the most experienced designer, and allow our customers to achieve sophisticated outdoor furniture environments with the help of our exclusive dealers. These evocative collections of texture, style and color are sure to stimulate, with more than 200 choices to give you just the look you want in sling chair fabrics, patio cushion fabrics, market umbrella fabrics - for all your patio furniture fabrics. Nine complete collections - from the sleek, metropolitan Silver Lining, to fresh, inviting Cool Hues, to the rich, luxurious indulgence of Rich Chocolate - await you.

Style is quality. Quality is style. For you, both speak volumes. We wouldn't have it any other way.

Family Owned and Operated Since 1954.

In 1954 Bert M. Baker, a retired engineer from the Grand Rapids Chair Co. and former engineer for Lockheed Aircraft, moved to Sarasota, Florida. Mr. Baker, an energetic, creative sort (some even say restless) soon became bored with retirement and bought a small, local company - the Sarasota Redwood Furniture Company. Drawing upon his experience in both the furniture and aircraft industries (and his knowledge of aluminum!) Mr. Baker soon switched from redwood to welded aluminum for his outdoor furniture construction. And renamed the company Tropitone.

From this humble beginning, an industry leader was born.

Mr. Baker's goals, and the family's, have been simple ever since. Provide casual outdoor patio furniture built with a total commitment to comfort, style and value. In other words, build quality a timeless quality that can only come from materials, design and technology that deliver the ultimate outdoor patio furniture. It didn't take long to realize that Tropitone furniture quality is so good, it is just at home indoors in stylish home comfort zones as it is outside by the pool or on a patio deck.

Early on, the family also recognized the value of quality customer service. That service begins with an in-depth understanding of your needs. In the commercial market, this has meant responding to requirements for amazingly durable outdoor patio furniture. Doing that in turn allowed us to offer significant advances in technology and quality in outdoor furniture for the home, as well. In both the commercial and retail markets, our independent representatives and dealers, many of whom have been with us for generations, have always offered in-depth knowledge and personalized service aimed at first making sure we understand your needs, then making sure you know vast range of choices and styles we make to meet your needs.

This commitment to quality means that Tropitone has pioneered many design and manufacturing innovations. These innovations mean both more comfort, and longer furniture life. And today, Tropitone continues to be a leader in the design and craftsmanship of fine outdoor patio furnishings.

Tropitone innovations include acrylic tabletops. Wider aluminum extrusions for arm comfort and strength. The first quick-drying, weather-resistant outdoor cushions. Double-wrapped vinyl straps. Tube-in-tube construction. All stainless hardware and fittings (other than the highly detailed, hefty cast or extruded aluminum frames!) And there are many more examples - including, of course, being the first outdoor patio furniture manufacturer to use powder coating to finish our frames. That was way back in 1969, or about 10 years before everyone else in the industry copied us. In fact, Tropitone has created more design and quality breakthroughs in aluminum outdoor patio furniture than any other company.

The original Mr. Baker eventually turned over leadership of Tropitone to his son, James Baker, who continued the Tropitone tradition of design and style leadership.

Leadership that helped Tropitone win numerous awards and honors from the design community. Including major awards in our industry like the Apollo, the IBD Contract, the ROSCOE - even the famous French design award, the Sisel Vert.

That's why our bold and visionary outdoor patio furniture collections - names like Pagoda, Boccaccio, Cantina, Brasilia, Hollywood, and Perception - come to mind when you think trendsetting, Tropitone style.

Style, indeed a multitude of styles, that you can make your own with a wide range of fabrics and finishes. So many choices that it's not much of an exaggeration to say that nearly every piece of Tropitone furniture is custom made. Not to mention hand crafted right here in the U.S.A. in both California and Florida.

Recently, the family torch has been carried by Douglas Baker, who, true to family traditions, is continuing the Tropitone's commitment to quality and style.

Fifty years after Mr. Baker's first patio furniture collection, Tropitone and Basta Sole, are internationally recognized manufacturers of fine casual furniture. Today, the Tropitone family manufactures a wide selection of indoor and outdoor casual furniture lines including extruded and cast aluminum patio furniture and pool furniture, as well as aluminum or wood market umbrellas and patio umbrellas.