Linen Sofas

Linen sofas in a low, fully skirted form, cut from a textured weave that softens as it settles rather than flattening. There are two shapes here: a two seater for a main sitting wall, and a single seat that works as an armchair beside it. Both come in Stone, a cool mid-grey, and Milk White.

Linen behaves differently to a flat upholstery fabric. It creases, it takes light unevenly, and it reads as a material with a history rather than a finish applied to a frame. That is the argument for a linen sofa: it looks lived in on the first day, so it never quite looks worn out later.

Choosing a linen sofa

Measure the wall, then take 40cm off it. A sofa that fills its wall corner to corner makes a room feel smaller than the same sofa with breathing space either side. Low, skirted profiles like these read as calmer than a leggy frame, because the eye sees one uninterrupted mass instead of a shape balanced on sticks.

In a room under about 3.5 metres wide, the single seat with a side table beside it usually does more than a two seater squeezed in.

Caring for a linen sofa

Are linen sofas durable? More than the fabric's reputation suggests. Linen fibre is stronger than cotton and grows softer with use rather than thinner. What linen does do is crease, and no amount of care changes that, which is why it suits a room meant to be sat in.

To clean a linen sofa, vacuum the seams with a brush head first, then blot spills rather than rubbing, working from the outside of a mark inwards. Wash any loose covers cool and put them back while slightly damp, so they settle onto the frame instead of shrinking at the corners.

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