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Friday, April 10, 2026
A sofa that deserves gawping at: The de Sede Terrazza sofa in film
Film and Furniture: Designed by Ubald Klug for De Sede in 1972, the DS-1025 Terrazza is less a sofa and more a landscape. Its stepped, modular form invites you to sit, recline, sprawl, or simply occupy it like a piece of terrain.
Nifty! I’ve never thought so much about furniture as I have in the past few weeks, and this article was no exception. As cool as it looks, I can't imagine it's very comfortable. Even in its production photos, it looks like the actor is sliding off the couch when she lays on it. This reminds me how much I want to try one of those cubic sofas that takes up a whole wall with various passageways and areas to sit or lounge. I feel like I could either be so comfy there and/or I’d get a great nap. It’d be fun to take a furniture making class. I was walking through the CFA art studios the other day and a class had a sittable project and I saw the coolest bench, chair, I don’t even know what to call it. It was very cool. Alas, I suppose I’ve have to couch this discussion until another time.
This is a very interesting couch. I can not decide if it looks all that comfortable, but I am sure there are some designer couches out there that are a lot less sit-able than this one. It is cool how they manage to get a sort of landscape sculpture on the couch, while being able to maintain a couch silhouette at the same time. It is also fascinating to see the same shape be used over and over again in different places. Unfortunately it appears that only those in the UK and Europe can acquire their own De Sede Terrazza, as they unfortunately do not sell to the US. I also bet that the modular nature of this furniture piece makes it attractive to designers as they could really mold it to fit the space they are in while still maintaining an interesting balance between couch, landscape, and sci-fi futurism.
Sofas and couches are an interesting medium to portray one's creativity but for some reason it always works. As the article mentions many stories set in the future require the use of otherworldly designs for common household items and sofas are no different. They still maintain the same functionality of being a chair but look nothing like what you would practically find someone sitting in. As many new forms of sofa arise it makes one wonder have we already perfected the art of making a couch. The DS-1025 Terrazza does not seem at all practical or comfortable as you have to contort yourself just slightly in order to sit. I understand the desire to have furniture and possessions that are unique and tell their own story but at what point does a couch stop existing to serve people's needs and become an art installation? Although determining that might be impossible, a couch is still a couch; some just have a little more pizazz.
I love weird furniture. This couch looks really awesome! I love when furniture is weird and also kind of like a piece of art. One of my friends and I go to museums sometimes and we like to play a game that we call “bench or art” where we go around the museum and try to decide if different things are meant for siting on or if they are in fact art pieces. Its quite funny, but it also can be harder than one might think sometimes. This particular piece is quite fascinating to me, and I would love the opportunity to actually sit on it. I can see it being either extremely comfortable, or extremely uncomfortable. When something like this is designed for a movie, it isn’t designed the way things are designed to actually be used and so I'm curious about what it’s like to sit on it
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Nifty! I’ve never thought so much about furniture as I have in the past few weeks, and this article was no exception. As cool as it looks, I can't imagine it's very comfortable. Even in its production photos, it looks like the actor is sliding off the couch when she lays on it. This reminds me how much I want to try one of those cubic sofas that takes up a whole wall with various passageways and areas to sit or lounge. I feel like I could either be so comfy there and/or I’d get a great nap. It’d be fun to take a furniture making class. I was walking through the CFA art studios the other day and a class had a sittable project and I saw the coolest bench, chair, I don’t even know what to call it. It was very cool. Alas, I suppose I’ve have to couch this discussion until another time.
This is a very interesting couch. I can not decide if it looks all that comfortable, but I am sure there are some designer couches out there that are a lot less sit-able than this one. It is cool how they manage to get a sort of landscape sculpture on the couch, while being able to maintain a couch silhouette at the same time. It is also fascinating to see the same shape be used over and over again in different places. Unfortunately it appears that only those in the UK and Europe can acquire their own De Sede Terrazza, as they unfortunately do not sell to the US. I also bet that the modular nature of this furniture piece makes it attractive to designers as they could really mold it to fit the space they are in while still maintaining an interesting balance between couch, landscape, and sci-fi futurism.
Sofas and couches are an interesting medium to portray one's creativity but for some reason it always works. As the article mentions many stories set in the future require the use of otherworldly designs for common household items and sofas are no different. They still maintain the same functionality of being a chair but look nothing like what you would practically find someone sitting in. As many new forms of sofa arise it makes one wonder have we already perfected the art of making a couch. The DS-1025 Terrazza does not seem at all practical or comfortable as you have to contort yourself just slightly in order to sit. I understand the desire to have furniture and possessions that are unique and tell their own story but at what point does a couch stop existing to serve people's needs and become an art installation? Although determining that might be impossible, a couch is still a couch; some just have a little more pizazz.
I love weird furniture. This couch looks really awesome! I love when furniture is weird and also kind of like a piece of art. One of my friends and I go to museums sometimes and we like to play a game that we call “bench or art” where we go around the museum and try to decide if different things are meant for siting on or if they are in fact art pieces. Its quite funny, but it also can be harder than one might think sometimes. This particular piece is quite fascinating to me, and I would love the opportunity to actually sit on it. I can see it being either extremely comfortable, or extremely uncomfortable. When something like this is designed for a movie, it isn’t designed the way things are designed to actually be used and so I'm curious about what it’s like to sit on it
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