A Miami yacht rigger looked at the patio umbrella and saw a badly engineered boat. Twenty-eight years later, Tuuci sells repairable shade architecture, furniture and outdoor rooms to designers, resorts and homeowners around the world.
A Boca Raton firm decided architecture should behave more like a factory than an atelier - so it wired together designers on four continents into a 24-hour workday and pointed the whole thing at one goal: build faster and cheaper.