It’s a challenge to find outdoor furniture that’s not only durable and weatherproof, but actually looks good in your backyard. The handcrafted wrought-iron pieces by Tuscan firm Caporali fit the bill: They’re elegant enough to bring indoors once summer’s over.

The Caporali family has been producing wrought-iron goods in Santa Mama, Italy, since 1855. Today, the furniture line is designed by Enzo Caporali. The pieces are truly made from wrought iron, rather than cast iron, which is the material used in many pieces sold as “wrought iron.” Wrought iron has a low carbon content and thus can be “wrought,” or manipulated, when heated; cast iron is heated with carbon into molten liquid and then cast into set forms. Unlike cast iron, wrought-iron furniture has no welded seams and can take on more fluid shapes.

Caporali makes lovely indoor pieces, including elaborate bed frames and canopy beds, but its indoor/outdoor tables and seats are especially suitable for alfresco entertaining. The “Picnic Collection” features wrought-iron seats with tie-on cushions (chair, $1,864, love seat, $3,110). More contemporary pieces include the Poltrona Ghiro chair ($3,669), which has a curving design, and the Relax Maglie chair ($4,543), featuring a cutout geometric pattern.

In America, Caporali furniture is sold at Tuscan Hills, an Italian home-design showroom in Princeton, N.J. Tuscan Hills also carries wood furniture by Mobil Paganelli, majolica ceramics by Deruta, mouth-blown crystal by Arnolvo di Cambio, and Busatti textiles; the Tuscan Hills company also sells and rents villas in Tuscany.

Tuscan Hills, 342 Nassau St., Princeton, N.J., 609-921-9015, www.tuscan-hills.com.