PatioPizazz.com is one-stop shopping for the ultimate contemporary outdoor furniture experience.  Our selection of teak, aluminum, cedar, and all weather rattan patio furniture and accessories is among the finest available in today's marketplace.   You can find just about anything and everything you need to make your patio a beautiful retreat and extension of your good taste. 

PatioPizazz.com is the latest vision of True Joy, Inc., a company established in 2002 in Naples, Florida.  The original business, True Joy Interiors (www.truejoyinteriors.com) , was formed to bring design services within reach to many potential customers who felt the design business in general was not only too expensive, but intimidating as well.  Award-winning artist Joseph Swenarton, and partner, Tony Fernandez began their business with the premise of being "dedicated to making your home as unique as you".   They found a successful formula in using some of their customer's own furniture and accessories along with new items and colors to be not only more economical, but less stressful to their clients who found that being part of the process was both fun and educational.

Where it was once fashionable to "bring the outdoors in" with items such as silk plants and indoor fountains, it's now is the trend to "take the indoors out" with new, more stylish patio furniture made with weather resistant materials that can endure the elements.  The lanai, or patio as it's more commonly called, has become an extension of one's living room or great room.  Our contemporary outdoor furniture and accessories are both unique in design and high in quality and are perfect for everyday use.  

PatioPizzaz.com also now offers beautiful contemporary outdoor artwork reproductions that are both unique and weather-proof.  Cleaning is a breeze as you only need a clean, damp cloth to wipe them down occasionally.  Make sure you visit our gallery page or (www.swenartongallery.com.)  while touring our site!

One service patiopizzaz.com offers that few others offer is free design tips.  Should you have questions regarding your patio furniture purchases please feel free to email us at your convenience.  We will do our best to help you solve your decorating dilemmas.  Outdoor furniture and accessories should help bring about a natural extension of your contemporary lifestyle to the great outdoors.  In that respect patiopizzaz.com is committed to helping your achieve your design vision.  We truly hope you enjoy your shopping experience with patiopizzaz.com and welcome any questions and suggestions you feel may enhance your shopping experience with us.

GALLERY&STUDIO

That the realist painter Joseph Swenarton is an artist of many facets is the first thing that becomes obvious on visiting his web site: swenartongallery.com. One of the more unusual series to be seen there is the painter’s posthumous collaboration with his late father, much in the spirit of the dubbed duets between Nat and Natalie Cole. Robert Swenarton was an accomplished amateur photographer who shot mostly in black and white, and in the series called “Like Father, Like Son” Joseph Swenarton interprets some of his pictures in color, photo and painting set side by side to create striking diptychs. Since the son is primarily a nature painter, the father inspires him auspiciously with subjects such as the woodsy scene “Golden Shadows,” the lyrical vision of which Joseph Swenarton expands upon with a full palette of luminous hues, the dappled chiaroscuro of the photograph suddenly bursting forth in a symphony of yellows and purples. Similarly, the son sensitively tweaks the rustic charm of the father’s “Autumn Rapture” by virtue of his chromatic amplification and subtle compositional reorganization. Since Joseph Swenarton seems to be generally more of a landscape than figure painter, his dad appears to encourage him to try a new approach in “Clara.” Rising to the occasion, the son puts a new spin on this rearview portrait of an elderly woman in a sun bonnet, positioning the portion of her head that is cropped out of the photograph in reverse order to jog the viewers’ perceptions in an intriguing manner. The son slightly alters the composition of the father’s photo “Bird Lady of the Beach” in his painted version, creating the cinematic illusion of a shift from medium shot to close-up, lending a sense of sequential movement to two static images. Juxtaposed in this fashion, each photographic and painted image in the “Like Father, Like Son” series reveals its own individual merits, making not only for a heartfelt tribute, but also for an engaging aesthetic dialogue animated by complementary contrasts. Other series on the website feature Joseph Swenarton’s landscapes in oils and acrylics, primarily of locales in Italy and Key West, Florida, where he arrived in 1985 and claims to have found love, spiritual rejuvenation, and artistic inspiration. The paintings in his “Joseph’s Garden” series reflect this sense of epiphany with their exotic vegetation and vibrant tropical colors. Joseph Swenarton could be termed a Neo-Impressionist, since his light-filled plein air style suggests that he has absorbed the inspiration of Monet, Renoir and other nineteenth-century French masters. Rather than appearing dissolved by light, however, his forms retain more detail and palpable substance. He also seems to eschew the Impressionists’ pseudoscientific theories regarding light and color phenomena, in favor of an exuberantly intuitive interpretation of nature. Along with producing giclee prints, Joseph Swenarton has innovated what he calls All Weather Art, a process by which fine art reproductions of his paintings can serve as outdoor murals on patios and elsewhere. Described on his website in the section called “New Horizons,” as well as on a related site called patiopizzaz.com, this new process is yet another facet of this versatile painter’s enterprising spirit. ––Byron Coleman Adventure and Enterprise in the Art of Joseph Swenarton Dimension “Golden Shadows".