Sofa Power Players That Changed the Modern Living Game.

B&B Italia’s Camaleonda Sofa.

Baxter’s Piaf Sofa.

Edra’s On The Rocks Sofa.

Space Furniture’s sofa collection brings together some of the most influential designs in furniture history, each representing a distinct approach to comfort, modularity and material innovation.

Here we take a closer look at three standouts that continue to define contemporary interiors.

Camaleonda by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia

Camaleonda hit the scene in 1970 when everything was changing—politically, culturally, the lot. Mario Bellini designed a modular system that could shift and adapt just like the times. The name is a mashup of ‘chameleon’ and ‘onda’ (Italian for wave), which pretty much sums up what it does.

“Certain products are born in the future, Camaleonda is one of them,” Bellini said at its 50th birthday. He’s not wrong. The design works because it doesn’t lock you into one setup. Those soft, pillowy cushions connect and reconfigure however you need them to.

Fast forward to 2020, and B&B Italia teamed up with Bellini again to rethink the whole thing through a sustainability filter. Now it’s made with polyester from recycled PET bottles, the covers aren’t stapled so you can separate and recycle everything, and the layered foam construction means no frames, straps or glue needed. The timber’s 100% recycled, the feet are FSC-certified beech. Proper circular design.

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Piaf by Baxter

Italian brand Baxter built its reputation on leather experimentation—specifically, pushing what leather can do in furniture. They’ve got over 100 people working on every detail, from tanning to design to making. It’s a proper family operation, Italian through and through.

The brand started when they took on leather that tanneries said was too thick for furniture. That gamble created Alfred, their first Chester-style sofa, and launched everything else. Piaf continues that leather obsession but makes it social. The curved modules are designed to bring people together, with soft sculptural forms the design team describes as ‘a comfortable embrace’. You can arrange them however works for your space, and Baxter’s detailed leather finishing makes every configuration feel luxe.

On the Rocks by Francesco Binfaré for Edra

Francesco Binfaré threw out the rulebook with On the Rocks. Instead of a sofa that stays put in one configuration, he made something that moves with you. The idea came from watching people sunbathing on the rocky cliffs in Puglia, finding comfortable spots among all those irregular surfaces.

‘The sofa has the power to define an environment, it has the ability to act as a protagonist,’ Binfaré says. What makes this work is genius: the backrests are completely separate pieces that just sit on the sofa using weight and gravity. Made with Edra’s Gellyfoam® (their own advanced material) and a hidden internal spine, you can plonk them anywhere you like.

One day it’s a massive asymmetric sofa, the next it’s split into armchairs, ottomans and smaller pieces. For Binfaré, it’s more than furniture—it’s ‘a mini travel installation, something that enters the home and produces performances’. Pretty epic way to think about a sofa.

All three are available through Space Furniture’s collection.

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Many modes of Edra’s On The Rocks.

Signature luscious details of Baxter’s Piaf (left) and B&B Italia’s Camaleonda (above).

[Images courtesy of Space Furniture.]