Most people buy a sofa by sitting on it for thirty seconds. The part that decides how it feels in year eight is the part nobody sees.
At our studio, we built a cutaway sofa to change that. One half finished, one half open. Every layer visible. This is what’s inside.
The frame
It starts with solid wood. Joinery that holds its geometry through seasons of Mumbai humidity. The frame is the skeleton. If it moves, everything above it fails. Ours doesn’t.
The suspension
A sofa is not a plywood box with foam on top. Between the frame and the seat sits a suspension system, and choosing the right one is a design decision, not a default.
We work with four:
8-way hand-tied springs. Individual coils, hand-knotted in eight directions. The gold standard for bespoke comfort. Slow to build. Worth it.
Pocketed coils. Independent coils in fabric pockets. They conform to body shape and hold up over long use.
Sinuous springs. S-shaped wire, run front to back. Efficient, consistent, the industry workhorse.
Pirelli webbing. Rubber-elastic straps. Flexible, breathable, suited to lower, contemporary profiles.
Which one goes into your sofa depends on the design, the depth of the seat, and how you sit. That conversation happens before we cut a single plank.
The layers
Above the suspension, the seat is built up in stages. Jute webbing. Coir. Latex. High-resilience foam in graded densities. A final wrap of polyfill for the surface feel. Each layer does one job. Together they decide whether a seat welcomes you at minute one and still supports you at hour three.
The finish
Only then comes the upholstery. The fabric is the last two millimetres of a structure that runs eight inches deep.
Why we show this
Because we build entirely to your brief, there is no floor model to fall back on. What we can show you is the method. Every sofa that leaves our 12,000 sq. ft. facility carries this anatomy inside it, tuned to your concept.
No catalogue. No collection. Just your concept.
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