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20 Modern Sofas To Go With Any Type Of Decor

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As the centerpiece of any social area, a stylish sofa often serves as a functional focal point – it's important to balance comfort with aesthetics to get the best possible effect. This post outlines twenty fabulous sofa designs for any style, from Scandinavian chic to industrial minimalism. You'll find sofas for every budget, every interior color scheme, and every type of space whether you're looking to outfit an open layout living room or a fully-equipped home theater. We hope you'll find ideas for your new favorite sofa right here! Stop by the comment section to let us know which one is your top favorite.

Mid Century Modern Style Tufted Sofa: With its unique and dramatic profile, this curvaceous sofa combines contemporary simplicity with mid century modern character. It even includes the adorable herringbone print throw pillows for effortless coordination – of course, modern sofas in colors like this handsome robins egg blue have plenty of other viable color coordinates if you ever feel like getting creative.

Modern Style Sofa With Color Options: Not only does this stylish sofa feature a versatile form that could suit any contemporary interior, it comes in a wide variety of stunning color options – from fire engine red to lemon yellow, with tons of stylish neutrals in between. Choose from polyester or bonded leather material.

Mid Century Modern Style Gray Sofa: This distinctive modern couch makes a strong statement with a unique form that defies conventional proportions: notice the thin sides, ultra-plush seats, and small round armrest cushions. It’s available in beige in addition to light or dark grey to suit a variety of interior styles.

Skinny Fat Condo Sofa: Despite its modest looks, this is one of the most comfortable sofas out there. And if you’re looking for a sofa that will fit your space perfectly, this piece is available in seven sizes from 80″ to 92″ in length – and there’s a fair number of fabric colors and leg finishes to choose from, too.

Velvet Chesterfield Sofa: Do you love the style of classic chesterfields, but want something with a more contemporary look? This velvet chesterfield sofa features chenille upholstery, reversible seat cushions, and matching lumbar side pillows. This model is also available in a warm off-white hue.

Modern 3 Seat Grey Velvet Sofa: Sophisticated and smooth, this velvety-soft sofa is just as comfortable as it looks. Side and bottom cushions are all one-piece, permanently affixed, while the side pillows are removable. It’s easy to set up – the legs are the only pieces that require assembly.

Super-Retro Orange Sofa: Inspired by the outrageous forms of furniture from the 80s, or even the “atomic age” aesthetic of the late 40s, this bright orange sofa is sure to start conversations. This piece would make a great focal point in a modern minimalist home, or would look great next to other pieces inspired by the same time periods.

Modernica Sofa: With dozens of upholstery and finish combinations to choose from, you’re sure to find the perfect Modernica sofa to fit your interior. This piece would look great in any modern interior but would look especially at home in a space inspired by futurism, minimalism, or contemporary Scandinavian style.

Le Corbusier Style Sofa: Inspired by the Grand Confort series by Le Corbusier, this modern sofa furniture set is a great choice for interiors that want to channel a cool industrial style. The original set was designed in 1928 and continues to serve as a style icon to this day.

Mid Century Style Futon: Now let’s look at some sofas for small spaces! This futon does double duty, laying flat to serve as a comfortable spare bed for unexpected guests. The stylish materials and form were inspired by the minimalist side of Scandinavian design, making it a versatile choice for just about any decor theme. Because it folds backward instead of pulling out, it can sit conveniently next to your favorite mid century modern coffee table.

Modern Futon Sofa: This 3-position sofa can serve as a couch, a lounge, or a small cot – in small spaces like studio apartments, it more than makes up for the amount of space it occupies. These cool modern sofas are available in bright hues spanning the entire rainbow.

Scandinavian Style Convertible Couch Bed: Simple, stylish, and versatile, this convertible sofa offers a variety of ways to enjoy its comfortable design. Not only can you lay this sofa flat to use it as a bed, but you can also simply recline the back to enjoy movies or books from a lounging position.

Modern Style Sleeper Sofa: Of course, sometimes you need something a little bigger than a standard futon or sleeper sofa. This pullout sofa offers the comfort of a full-sized bed without sacrificing on style.

Super Customizable Transformer Sleeper Sofa: If you thought the sofas previously outlined in this guide were versatile, just wait until you see everything this piece can do! The single chair can slide left or right, unfold into a lounge or bed, or come together to extend the main body of the couch. The small tables are super useful for books or morning coffee.

Modern Sectional Sofa With Storage: Finding the right sofa for the center of a room is never easy, but this piece looks great from any angle. With plenty of space for books, sketchpads, and movies, it’s the ultimate entertainment space for a relaxing weekend at home.

Modern Sectional Sofa: Are you looking for something completely different for your home theater room? This unique sectional sofa has it all! With white leather upholstery, bold black accents, and creative shapes and patterns, this piece will define any space it occupies.

White & Red Contemporary Sectional Sofa: Here’s something completely out of the ordinary! Bold red accents draw attention to this sofa’s highly uncommon curves and angles. The small section between the lounge and the middle chair contains a lidded box to store refreshments.

Circular Sectional Sofa: While circular sofas aren’t exactly known for their versatility within interior design, this piece defies expectations. It comes apart into five pieces that you can rearrange at will – the middle portion can serve as an ottoman or upholstered table. The end pieces can pull away and double as extra seating for guests.

Contemporary Tufted Seat Sectional Sofa: With adjustable headrests, this white contemporary sofa allows everyone in the family to find their comfort zone. Add the extra armless chair (shown next to the lounge) to expand your seating.

Ikea Ekebol Sofa With Shelving: What a great multipurpose sofa for a small apartment! It includes two shelves, one in the front and one in the back, to hold your favorite books, shoes or magazines. Add hooks to the back to create a home for other accessories like purses, hats, or gloves.


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Interior Designers on the Most Iconic Furniture of All Time

Sometimes, a piece of furniture comes along and changes everything around us. If a painting is meant to be looked at and fashion meant to be worn, furniture is meant to be lived in—slept in, worked in, sat in. It dictates how we interact with our surrounding spaces, how we go about our every day. Even during the most mundane moments: George Nelson’s collection for Herman Miller, for example, created the template for cubicles, now omnipresent in office buildings around America.

But what are these pieces that have not only entered our homes but our collective consciousness? Vogue asked 22 interior designers and professionals to find out. Their answers ranged from the simple farm table to Gaetano Pesce’s Space Age–esque Up chair. Some of them are akin to priceless works of art: Take Yves Klein’s Table IKB. In 1961, Klein painted a canvas with International Klein Blue, a color he invented himself. (The work now sits in MoMA.) Two years later, after the artist’s death, his widow shepherded a coffee table filled with the same ultramarine pigment to market, based on the late artist’s prototype. Yet, unlike fine art, design is a medium where form almost always follows function: You can still set your coffee mug upon a Table IKB—although we’d recommend a coaster.

Below, a list of the most iconic furniture designs in history, as chosen by the experts.

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This iconic cocktail table was done by Yves Klein, one of the most influential, prominent, and controversial French artists to emerge in the 1950s, also known as a forerunner of Minimal art as well as Pop art. Klein’s table is similar to his suspended pigment pieces, which were the genesis for this piece. The form of the table is very simple, very elegant, and meant really to disappear. The pigment is all. And since the pigment is loose, it does invite comparison to Klein’s belief in pure space: The eye penetrates what seems to be a limitless depth. Yves Klein is remembered above all for his use of a single color, the rich shade of ultramarine that he made his own: International Klein Blue. His table has become one of the most iconic and recognizable pieces of furniture transcending into art of the 20th and 21st centuries. —Gilles Clement, Gilles Clement Designs

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Vladimir Kagan is one of my favorite furniture designers from the 20th century. His mid-century modern pieces defined the curves of the era. In my own modern projects, curves tend to soften the sharp lines of the architecture, adding warmth and personality to the space. His stunning serpentine sofa is as relevant today as ever and still one of my favorite upholstery pieces.—Sara Cukerbaum, Principal Designer of SLIC Design

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The Wiggle Chair by Frank Gehry is hands down one of my favorite design pieces ever. It’s simple, sturdy, yet so playful in look, and I absolutely adore the experimental nature of using cardboard—it truly epitomizes design in perpetuity. It’s also a study on how to use more environmentally friendly materials. —Kelly Wearstler

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George Nakashima’s New lounge chair is an iconic example of American-Japanese design. Through the use of a free-form arm, which accentuates the wood’s natural characteristics, he reveals nature’s beauty. The form of the chairs and the hand-carved spindles are a reference to a traditional American design, the Windsor chair. —Robert Aibel, founder and codirector of Moderne Gallery

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Innovative: all foam. Designed for delivery as a flat pack—open the box, and the chair grows out of a flat disc. So cool. —Robert Finger, Fogarty Finger

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The first time I saw Herman Miller’s historic Eames Lounge in person was when I was a young girl. At the time, I was too young to fully comprehend the timeless, transcendent heritage of this high-quality lounger, but my age did not prevent me from recognizing the Eames chair had strength in presence. I knew it was something beyond special.—Keita Turner, Keita Turner Design

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The use of humble materials to create elegant and iconic pieces of furniture is extremely hard to do. Charlotte Perriand was able to create beautiful, functional furniture with as little design as possible. I personally am very attracted to this approach to design, and Perriand’s work continues to speak to me and help shape what I do. This philosophy is particularly effective when designing large-scale hotel projects (like she did for Les Arcs) as it allows you to convey something interesting and elegant to guests without opulence. —Robert McKinley, Studio McKinley

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Angelo Mangiarotti’s Eros side tables are as good as it gets. You couldn’t invent anything more primitive—just two pieces of stone, held together by friction without any fasteners or attachments—but the way that the attachment is detailed makes a very basic idea into something whimsical, even sensual. —Nicholas G. Potts

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Noguchi’s lanterns are potentially my favorite items to use in almost every project. Made with traditional Japanese craft techniques, the lanterns are made of a wire structure and a rice-paper envelope, which gives them a beautiful glow of light. Though they have been used so many times, they still manage to keep their iconicity. Perhaps it’s their modesty, low price, uniformity, and simplicity that makes it easy for a designer to integrate them into almost every project. —Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger, BoND

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The klismos chair is undoubtedly one of the design world’s most iconic pieces, having been reintroduced into interiors repeatedly for over a thousand years, starting with its great ancient Greek beginnings. It was first seen in fifth-century B.C. depictions of the furniture on vases and bas reliefs and later in similar views on Roman pottery and etchings. The chair fell out of fashion for hundreds of years; however, during the second neoclassical revival, it returned with great aplomb, dressing the drawing rooms and salons of all fashionable society from the 1780s till the late 1830s. At the turn of the 20th century, the Villa Kerylos in the South of France led the fashion again for Grecian-inspired interiors, and the klismos hit the scene once again.

My personal favorite revival, however, was the one directed in 1960 by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings, who met a Greek cabinet-making couple, the Saridis. Together they created the Klismos line of furniture, with special care taken to the reproduction of the klismos chair created in many wood finishes and metals. These pieces are now icons of the midcentury movement, wildly collectible and highly prized. Very few designs have lasted in the ever evolving tastes of interior fashion. However, the klismos has been, and undoubtedly will continue to be, a beacon of style and good taste. —Martyn Lawrence Bullard

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What I appreciate about Oscar Niemeyer is that his background in modernist architecture gave him a new approach to furniture design. His use of high-quality materials and avant-garde techniques made his pieces iconic right from the beginning and led to objects that are the perfect marriage of sculpture and design. His Rio Lounge Chair is the perfect example, like living art. —Alberto Villalobos, A. Villalobos Design and New York Design Center Access to Design designer

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These chairs are everywhere these days—and for good reason. We purchased one for a client, and I fell in love and decided to get one for myself as well. I think these chairs are iconic in that they combine natural materials and classic techniques with a beautiful sense of formality. I can see the influence of Guillerme et Chambron in so many designers working today. This chair is classic enough for the most traditional of spaces but weird enough for adventurous design lovers. —Gray Davis, principal at Meyer Davis

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This is the perfect decompression sanctuary in the form of an elevated chaise. The classic form combined on the platform base gives the illusion and feel of levitating off the ground. I absolutely love this vintage style for its simplicity, sleek lines, comfort, and illusion of floating. —Celeste and Satu Greenberg, Tuleste Factory

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This is the transition moment from old-fashioned, freestanding office furniture to the panel workstations loathed for decades. Modern, updated functional furniture focused on ergonomics and integrated equipment (files in the desktop, phone in the side). Each piece serves a function and can be clustered based on task. Then the panels are thrown in to help with acoustics. All meant to be reconfigurable and flexible. —R.F.

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The Atollo table lamp designed by Vico Magistretti in 1977 is a modern Italian masterpiece that endures the test of time. Its clean geometric form and seemingly floating cap strike the perfect proportions. I love the ambient mood of the direct and indirect lighting. —Erick Garcia, Maison Trouvaille

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I love Josef Hoffmann’s upholstered furniture (which doesn’t get nearly as much attention as it should). Particularly the Club 1910 chair. They were completely ahead of their time in 1910, and the extremely deep tufted leather still looks fresh a hundred years later, almost like a more tailored ancestor of the Mario Bellini sofas that are everywhere right now. —NGP

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The Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair immediately comes to mind. Its streamlined form and durable materials are incredibly versatile and easily work with so many styles, from traditional formal antiques to contemporary furniture designs. The chair also ages beautifully over time and acquires a great patina on its leather. —Heide Hendricks, Hendricks Churchill

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I absolutely love a Louis XV daybed. I have put them in dressing rooms, bedrooms, and even living rooms for extra seating or as an extra bed. If I come upon one or hear of one coming on the market, I never miss a chance to snatch it up. —Kathryn M. Ireland

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Originating in the Philippines and traditionally made from fast-growing rattan vines, this thronelike chair has since the early 19th century been a favorite of portrait photographers. In the 1960s especially, the chair was a popular destination for the tushies of celebrities of every stripe, from Al Green and Dolly Parton to John Kennedy. Perhaps the most famous image of the peacock chair is the iconic poster of Black Panther cofounder Huey Newton, holding his rifle and spear. I love the peacock chair because it is made from humble natural materials but at the same time bestows a regal appearance to any queen or king who sits in it. —Justina Blakeney, Jungalow

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The simple farm table is a humble essential and yet has such powerful and timeless grace. Its organic materiality stands the test of time and is still of significance today, just as it was hundreds of years ago...but for somewhat different reasons, given the climate crisis. Also I love that the farm table is meant to show its wear, its patina and unique character alluding to all the meals shared and stories told on its surface across time and space. —Whitney Frances Falk, founder and CEO of ZZ Driggs

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Claude Lalanne was a French sculptor who forged one of the most prolific partnerships of her generation with her husband, Francois Xavier, and became known as Les Lalanne. Torchere Without Leaves belongs to a limited edition of eight and is rooted in the language of nature as a response to modernism. This piece illustrates the unparalleled craftsmanship of Claude Lalanne and also exemplifies how Lalanne’s work sought to challenge the boundaries between art and design, capturing the attention of fashion designers such as Givenchy, Yves Saint Laurent, and Chanel. —Jennifer Roberts, CEO of Design Miami

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Designed in 1957, at the peak of Gio Ponti’s career, the Superleggera chair was marketed as a chair so light even a child could pick it up with one finger. Ever since, it has been reproduced by Cassina, which still fabricates it today. This is a chair that encapsulates an essence of elegant Italian modernism; it’s immediately recognizable and can fit in well in both a minimalist and a more saturated design context. —N.D. and D.R.

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These chairs were designed for B&B Italia’s Maxalto series, which had a focus on pushing the boundaries of wood craftsmanship, and they certainly succeeded. Every time I see these chairs at auction or in person, they look practically new, which shows the level of ingenuity that went into crafting them. They are very comfortable, and the palisander wood with ebony inlay makes them striking—truly a set to design a room around. Not many were produced, but you can see the impact of this design in many of the chunky, more simplified styles of dining chairs and barstools designed today. —Will Meyer, principal at Meyer Davis

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Upholstered furniture and combined room design

Among modern trends in interior design, the combination of different finishing materials is very popular. This technique gives the room exclusivity and originality, but there is also a downside - upholstered furniture should be selected very carefully for the combined interior design, because not every item looks good in this design.

Zoning with combination

Very often, a combined finish is preferred due to purely practical considerations. It allows you to simply divide the room into different zones, so upholstered furniture for combined wallpaper should be selected taking into account the purpose of each area. This option is the simplest and when choosing sofas, you can be guided by standard rules.

To achieve a holistic view of the room, it is enough to choose the right color for each product. It is desirable that the shape of each sofa is in harmony with the rest of the interior features, for example, smooth lines on the wallpaper repeat the general outlines or at least pillows. Upholstered furniture should also be in harmony with the flooring, which can be more difficult to achieve if zoning is done only with wallpaper. nine0003


Upholstered furniture for combined wallpaper: respect for design

If the main purpose of the combined finish is to comply with a certain design idea, then the choice of sofas should be taken even more seriously. When choosing upholstered furniture, you should consider: