About Us
Our approach
Most outdoor furniture is sold on a photograph of one perfect evening.
You know the picture. Low sun, a table laid for six, everything new. What the photograph never shows is the same set in February — tarped, or greying, or quietly falling apart at the joints because it was built for a catalogue rather than for weather.
That gap is why Bersam exists. We sell furniture, fire, lighting and tools for outside, chosen on one test: how does this age?
What we actually look for
It usually comes down to materials and joints, which is unglamorous but it is where things fail.
We favour grade-A teak because its own oils resist rot without treatment, and because silvering is a change of colour rather than a failure. We favour powder-coated and cast aluminium over steel where rust would eventually win. We use solution-dyed olefin for cushions, where the colour is added to the fibre before it is spun rather than printed on afterwards — which is the difference between fabric that fades in one season and fabric that does not.
We like solid copper path lights that patina instead of plated ones that flake. We like reticulated foam that drains rather than holds a week of rain. We like recycled HDPE that never needs painting because the colour runs all the way through.
None of this is exotic. It is just the boring, correct choice, made consistently.
We tell you what things become
Teak silvers. Copper turns green. Cast stone gathers moss. Oxidised steel develops a rust patina by design. Every one of those is the material behaving properly, and every one of them generates support emails at stores that never mentioned it.
So we put it in the product description. Every listing carries material, dimensions, weather rating, and whether assembly is required — on the page, not in the small print.
From a balcony to an acre
Our range runs from a $34 coir doormat to a $2,499 cedar pergola, and we take both ends seriously. A rail-mounted planter for a sixteen-inch balcony deserves the same scrutiny as a nine-piece dining set. Small outdoor spaces are the harder design problem, not the lesser one.
Straight answers
We are an American company, and when you email us a person reads it. If a piece is not right for your space, we would rather tell you before you buy it than process the return afterwards.
