Soft Seating

Soft seating, and what it is really for

The full soft seating catalogue across every range and format. Soft seating is usually bought to fill a corner and ends up doing something more useful: defining areas in an open plan office without anyone building a wall.

Start with what the space needs to do

Waiting, meeting informally, working away from a desk, or eating. Those are four different pieces of furniture, and buying a sofa because the corner looked empty is how offices end up with seating nobody uses.

If the honest answer is that people need somewhere quiet to concentrate, privacy booths and pods will get used far more than a sofa will.

Fixed shapes or modular

Sofas and armchairs suit a defined corner with a known shape. Modular seating is built from units that join, so it can follow a wall, turn a corner or form an island. Plan the shape on paper first, then count the units.

Specify contract, not domestic

Office soft seating takes far more use than a sofa at home and gets no gentleness at all. Frames and fabric here are contract rated, which is the difference between furniture that ages and furniture that collapses.

The ranges

Brixworth covers armchairs, sofas, booths, modular units and matching tables. Mawsley is the modular system for larger spaces. Studio is softer and more domestic in feel. Harlestone stools move easily as a space changes.