Recommendations for all weather garden furniture

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I know not really gardening, but I thought people here will have best thoughts. We have a terrace Victorian house and a fully paved garden. Looking for some furniture that is all weather as nowhere to store it, that is comfortable without cushions (also nowhere to store it), ideally that doesn’t need looking after and bonus points if not the kind of ‘nooky’ design where spiders hide.
Anyone recommend anything! Dh wants wooden table and chairs. I was thinking colourful. But it is big enough that we can have two separate seating areas. Dd is pitching for an L shaped sofa area where she and her friends can sit which we probably also have room for. (It’s about fifty foot)

I like Hay metal furniture but it's expensive. www.hollowaysofludlow.com/collections/palissade-collection

I also have some habitat copies but they're nowhere near as good in looks or quality. https://www.habitat.co.uk/product/9598070?clickPR=plp:3:9

Teak. It will last outside for decades without anything needing doing. I sometimes clean mine but mostly don't. My mum still uses a teak bench which was her father's and is now over 65 years old.

We've got 2 teak benches that are now about 15 years old and still look great - we left them natural so they've gone silver. They have been outside constantly in all weathers. They are perfectly comfortable enough to sit at the (also teak) table and eat. We do have a cushion for them we bring out if we have guests!

I bought some plastic rattan chairs from La Redoute that have lasted one season, now look crap and also weren't very comfortable. I think they are off to the tip.

We've got a couple of these, with outdoor cushions

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BC85JTHG?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

We found that the metal ones last the longest and when our quite old set started getting slight rust marks, we painted them in a nice green Hammerite paint.

I live in Wales, the climate took only a few years to rot my teak recliner that I had left out in the garden in Sweden for 25 years.

If you can afford it have a look at https://www.lazysusanfurniture.co.uk/ I bought 4 chairs from them ten years ago that have been enjoying the Welsh climate for 10 years without any sign of deterioration. They are also quite light and easy to carry around, but weighty enough not to take wing in gales the way plastic furniture does. I find they are worth the initial outlay because they are very comfortable, and virtually indestructible.

I have an old teak bench too and left it to go silver. It looks great but you need to buy a solid, good quality one. We’ve not long bought a table and some chairs, again teak but they are less solid (thinner) and I’ve spent the afternoon oiling and matt varnishing as they looked like the weather has got to them, despite this summer not being very rainy and them being blught in April. My plan is to stick these in the shed. The bench will be left outside to embrace the cold artic air of the NE. It’s been fine these last 24 years. Go for the best quality you can afford.

I live in Wales too and so does my mother. My teak table and chairs have been absolutely fine for years left outside with no treatment and, as in my previous post, my mother has a teak bench that's at least 65 years old, left outside all year round with no problems.
However, as @canningqueen has said, buy solid good quality teak if you're going to leave it outside.

We have a cheapish corner sofa bought from amazon and just have a cover for it when we're not using it. Only a few years old but seems to be doing fine.

Depends on budget I guess. I wanted furniture that I don’t need to spend too much time maintaining (so wood was out of the equation). I had a rattan set for a while, but it became a faff having to store the cushions each time it rained, through winter etc.

Have ended up with a corner sofa and a couple of armchairs from Maze Living. The frames are aluminium, so don’t rust. And they’re from their outdoor fabric range, which means you don’t need to store them away. Had the sofa for my 4th summer now, still love it. A quick pressure wash each spring, and winter covers (usually included) from around November.

I am just looking at those now @Ijwwm - so is the fabric waterpoorf?

Pretty much - liquid sort of beads on top. In heavy downpours- the cushions are constructed in a way that water runs through and out of the base of the sofa.

Not all of their furniture is like this though - you need to make sure that you’re looking at their Outdoor Fabric ranges.

It’s just been so nice not having to run outside to scoop up cushions when it rains, and also not having to have somewhere to store the cushions for half of the year. I was so happy with my sofa after a couple of years that I’ve now added a day bed and a couple of comfy armchairs. Also, because the frames are aluminium, they’re not heavy so it’s very easy to rearrange the furniture if needed.

Amazing thank you. Going to start saving. Hopefully can get them next spring

I like powder-treated aluminium. I got the table from Nordic Nest for £550 and then the chairs from La Redoute. No rust, they can be repainted if needed, they are strong and light.

We’ve had this for about 3 years now and it’s like new
https://www.gardenfurnitureworld.co.uk/gardenfurnitureworld/m/product.asp?pid=69119012
As mentioned upthread it has weatherproof cushions so you can just leave them on. We do cover ours over during winter though