Sand & Metal: On Comfort and Resistance

Two sofas anchor the edit, each making a different case for the same idea of ease. The Sandy Sofa curves inward and embraces. Its generous arc folding around whoever sits within it, committed and almost architectural in its confidence.

The Stella Lounge Sofa argues differently: lower, longer, more emphatic in its insistence on horizontal repose, it simply extends across the room as though gravity itself had a preference. That both are upholstered in lulu camel – a fabric the colour of dunes at the last hour before sunset – is not incidental. The shared tone acts as a through-line, a quiet thread that holds the entire composition together even as the forms around it vary; the room's warmth made consistent, its temperature held steady. Yet the effect of either is entirely yielding. 

Paired with the Teo Wheeled Chair – compact, self-possessed, its backrest cut through with a clean rectangular aperture that lightens the whole piece with a note of considered wit – the seating arrangement becomes a conversation rather than a display. The Teo's scale is deliberately unimposing; it is the chair one draws forward when a gathering turns intimate.

Against all this warmth, the Coupe Coffee Table insists on something else entirely. Cast aluminium, dark graphite, its wide shallow disc resting on a tapering base. There is a ceremonial gravity to it that has nothing to do with ceremony and everything to do with proportion. Without it, the room would simply be comfortable. With it, the room becomes a considered argument.

The surface – cool, matte, unhurried – is the kind that invites objects: a book left face-down, a glass of something amber, the small side table from the same collection standing nearby like a sculptural footnote.

The Sultan Floor Lamp resolves the composition vertically. A column of deeply textured dark metal supporting a rectangle of pale linen: the roughness of the base and the calm of the shade in absolute contrast, the whole thing giving the eye a place to travel upward in a room that is otherwise deliberately low and horizontal. In the evenings, when its light pools across the camel upholstery, the space takes on the quality of something settled and permanent.

Warmth without structure becomes soporific. Structure without warmth becomes inhospitable. The Sandy Sofa, the Teo, the Coupe, the Sultan – each answers the other, and in the space between them, something worth living in.

Our designers work with combinations that aren't obvious. And that's precisely the point. If you'd like help finding the pairings that reflect your own sensibility, we're here.