It’s Time for Squishy

We love curves and squishy furniture is in right now and there’s a science-based reason it is!

You might like to introduce some of these designs into your home right now as we emerge out of Lockdown.

A recent article, written by Tim McKeough and published in The New York Times declares that curvy furniture is now popular!

McKeough reports on the current popularity of “the embrace of bulbous, low-slung, super-squishy furniture that offers all-out comfort. Sofas and chairs that evoke plush 1970s lounges, like Cassina’s Soriana collection and B & B Italia’s Camaleonda modular sofa, are suddenly hot commodities.  At the same time, contemporary designers are experimenting with oversize proportions and sink-in plushiness to a level that would have seem profane to devoted modernists just a few years ago.”

Environmental psychology research, as we mentioned in another article, makes it clear that the rise in popularity of curvy stuff is entirely predictable.  It’s pleasurable, relaxing, and comforting to be around stuff (whether that stuff is furniture or paintings on a wall or something else) that has relatively more curving lines than straight ones.

And when, in most of our lifetimes, have we ever needed more comforting experiences than now?

Reference: May 4 (“Like Sweatpants, Squishy Furniture is In,” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/style/furniture-squishy-home-design.html),