Collection by Luke Hopping

Dream Sofas

More for admiring than plopping down on, these five stately sofas could be in a museum.

Cosse sofa by Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset, $4,225. Curl up in this sofa and you’ll be cozy as a pea in a pod—the English translation of the French word cosse. The exposed frame comes in natural or anthracite-stained beech.
Cosse sofa by Philippe Nigro for Ligne Roset, $4,225. Curl up in this sofa and you’ll be cozy as a pea in a pod—the English translation of the French word cosse. The exposed frame comes in natural or anthracite-stained beech.
Lazy sofa bed by Andreas Lund for Softline, $2,886–$4,636.

This isn’t your standard pull-out sofa; pushing the backrest down creates a flat sleeping surface. Available in hundreds of fabric and color combinations.
Lazy sofa bed by Andreas Lund for Softline, $2,886–$4,636. This isn’t your standard pull-out sofa; pushing the backrest down creates a flat sleeping surface. Available in hundreds of fabric and color combinations.
Antonio Citterio’s 1997 design for B&B Italia is now well into its second decade of popularity, with a pair of successful updates—2003’s deeper Charles Large and 2010’s polypropylene Charles Outdoor—already on the books. “I try not to copy but to perceive and assimilate aspects specific to the work of great masters,” says Citterio of the Charles’s nod to the Eameses, but he notes that the similarities between his sofa and the couple’s mid-century designs “are more in spirit than in fact.”

Charles Sofa (1997) by Antonio Citterio for B&B Italia bebitalia.it
Antonio Citterio’s 1997 design for B&B Italia is now well into its second decade of popularity, with a pair of successful updates—2003’s deeper Charles Large and 2010’s polypropylene Charles Outdoor—already on the books. “I try not to copy but to perceive and assimilate aspects specific to the work of great masters,” says Citterio of the Charles’s nod to the Eameses, but he notes that the similarities between his sofa and the couple’s mid-century designs “are more in spirit than in fact.” Charles Sofa (1997) by Antonio Citterio for B&B Italia bebitalia.it