Remember couchsurfing? The act, codified by its eponymous website, meant offering your space up to those who needed a place to crash. The couch became a bed, and suddenly your living room is a hotel room. Lately couches have become much more: They are workplaces, as WFH often means WFC (working from couch); after school hangouts for kids; sites of friends reuniting after years apart; and campsites after you say the wrong thing to your partner. In short, the couch ought to be mutable enough to handle contemporary life, but they often are not. Seemingly everything these days about our homes—where we live, who we live with, where we work, what objects we choose to keep, how we consume media—exists in a state of flux. Why must our furniture remain so static?
Enter Vitra’s Anagram Sofa, a flexible furniture system designed by Stefano Panterotto and Alexis Tourron of the Lausanne-based design studio Panter&Tourron. It begins with rectangular platforms that can be clipped together along an outer shaped rail cast into the frames which turn the corner with a handsome diecast leg. Additional components—backrests, side panels, and tables—can be attached along all four sides. These elements can be removed or adjusted easily, making for a sturdy array of pieces that can be rearranged for different activities. These platforms can make all kinds of shapes: Ls, Ss, Fs, pinwheels, mirrored pairs, deep daybeds, the list goes on… In response to the lack of customization available with most modular couches—a left-corner piece can only be used in that position, for example—the possible customization here, including fabrics, feels endless. An online configurator will help U.S. customers make decisions when the product becomes available in September.
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