To learn the way high quality sofas are made, we visited three furnishings factories: Los Angeles–primarily based BSC Furnishings, which on the time was manufacturing BenchMade Fashionable’s line of upholstered seating (the businesses have since parted methods); the ability for Modernica, a modernist furnishings producer, additionally primarily based in Los Angeles; and the Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams manufacturing facility in Taylorsville, North Carolina. In 2022, we spoke with Phantila Phataraprasit, co-founder of Sabai, concerning the firm’s method to designing for a settee’s lifecycle. We spoke with Svenja Diekmann, head of design at Swedish furnishings firm Hem, on the firm’s pop-up showroom throughout the LA Design Pageant. And we chatted with salespeople on the ground of such retailers as IKEA, Crate & Barrel, and West Elm, and skim hundreds of on-line evaluations and editorial suggestions listed on-line at HGTV, Architectural Digest, Curbed, Condominium Remedy, Houzz, and Elle Décor.
