The Monocle Book of Designers on Sofas
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The Monocle Book of Designers on Sofas is a collection of portraits and interviews for design students, furniture designers, and readers curious about the people behind well-known work. Compiled by Virginia McLeod and Nic Monisse and published by Thames & Hudson in 2025, the 240-page English-language hardback features fifty architects and designers photographed on their sofas at home or at work. Each entry pairs a portrait with an in-depth interview about their life, passions, struggles, and sofa choices.
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A foldout presents one hundred architect-designed sofas from the last century, by figures such as Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Charlotte Perriand, and Verner Panton. For coursework, the book offers a lighter route into discussions of seating typology, domestic use, and the relationship between a designer's personality and their approach. Students can use the interviews as prompts for research on individual designers and the foldout as a quick visual reference of precedents. On a university reading list, it complements more academic furniture histories with personal, human-scale perspectives.
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