Now that people are spending more time on their couches, who wouldn’t prefer deep seats, soft machine-washable cotton, and feather stuffing? Says Phyllis Harbinger, adjunct assistant professor of interior design at F.I.T., “These couches are like comfort food for the external body. According to Ashwell, sales of her signature slipcovered sofa are up significantly, and the style has apparently been selling well at ABC Carpet & Home too (it’s called Watermill). Designer Kai Avent-deLeon’s Bed-Stuy brownstone is centered on a full white couch, and the sleeker but still Shabby Chic–informed Restoration Hardware Cloud Sofa sits front and center in Kendall Jenner’s Calabasas mansion. Lately, such similar couches can be found in the living rooms of both designers and celebrities. The sofa spawned dozens of look-alikes, from Pottery Barn’s Slipcovered Sofa to the Ikea Ektorp. By the early aughts, those rumpled, fat, slipcovered sofas were everywhere from Elle Décor to Warren Beatty’s living room. In 1989, Rachel Ashwell released the Shabby Chic sofa - a response, at the time, to the precious ruffled couches of the ’80s. Im making an attempt at making slipcovers for a love seat and sleeper sofa, Im using a white denim or duck type cloth, I am not sure how to do my cushions, and am fretting over this, they have a piece of piping across center of front and are a bit curved on in the front and sides, flat across the back, kind of like this ( should I put the piping just across the front or could I still put it.
Now back in style: the enormous white couch. If you happened to find yourself shopping for a new couch at any point over the past decade and a half, you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking there was only one style - the angular mid-century. Photo: Courtesy of The World of Shabby Chic/Rizzoli
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