$3,307Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Vis à Vis Sofa by Nico Devito in Hand-Woven, Leather Wood and Bamboo
By Bonacina
Located in Roma, IT
This Vis à Vis has the shape of a letter "S" so that the two people sitting can look into each other's eyes.
Leather, Cotton, Bamboo
Salvador Dalí Limited Edition Black Sofa Vis-à-Vis De Gala
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Geneve, CH
Salvador Dalí Limited Edition black sofa Vis-à-Vis De Gala Dimensions: 80 x 170 x 82 H cm Materials: Wood, upholstery, brass, silk Structure in solid wood.
Brass
Pink Curved Silk Wood Modern Vis-à-Vis De Gala Sofa By Salvador Dali
By (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Geneve, CH
Salvador Dalí sofa Vis-à-Vis De Gala Dimensions: 80 x 170 x 82 H cm Materials: Wood, upholstery, brass, silk Structure in solid wood.
Brass
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Salmon Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Red Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,160Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Cream Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Purple Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Blue Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Teal Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Green Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Brown Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Black Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
$3,732Sale Price / item|20% Off
Modern Gentle Vís a Vís in Mustard Fabric and Bronze Metal
Located in New York, NY
The Modern Gentle Vis-à-Vis blends comfort and refined craftsmanship, featuring a smooth, inviting shell contrasted by a quilted leather base with striking vertical stitching. A bron...
Metal
Salvador Dali Vis-à-vis De Gala Sofa
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Homburg, DE
Dalí Vis-à-Vis de Gala by Salvatore Dali Pink leather with a curved massive brass applications. Very heavy item! Hand laced on jute belts in the traditional style.
Brass
Louis XVI Vis-a-Vis Love Seat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Louis XVI vis-a-vis love seat
Wood
Sold
H 27.56 in W 27.17 in D 24.81 in
Danish THYGESEN / SORENSEN Big Arm Chairs KING SERIES - by BOTIUM - design 1970
By Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sorensen
Located in Berlin, DE
This is characterized by a lower seating position and much more seating space in width. Suitable as vis-à-vis a sofa or as a conversation chair. Not to be confused with the usual cha...
Leather, Cane, Oak
Sold
H 28.75 in W 59.45 in D 25.6 in
Vis-à-vis Sofa Attributable to Vivai del Sud, Made in Rattan Cane and Bamboo
By Vivai del Sud
Located in Roma, IT
A Splendid Vis-à-vis Sofa handcrafted in Italy between the 1970s and 1980s and attributable to the historical Roman Manufacture "Vivai del Sud" .
Cotton, Bamboo, Cane, Rattan
Black leather, silk velvet cushions, breathable bouclé fabric — when shopping for antique or vintage sofas, today’s couch connoisseurs have much to choose from in terms of style and shape. But it wasn’t always thus.
The sofa is typically defined as a long upholstered seat that features a back and arms and is intended for two or more people. While the term “couch” comes from the Old French couche, meaning to lie down, and sofa has Eastern origins, both are forms of divan, a Turkish word that means an elongated cushioned seat. Bench-like seating in Ancient Greece, which was padded with soft blankets, was called klinai. No matter how you spell it, sofa just means comfort, at least it does today.
In the early days of sofa design, upholstery consisted of horsehair or dried moss. Sofas that originated in countries such as France during the 17th century were more integral to decor than they were to comfort. Like most Baroque furnishings from the region, they frequently comprised heavy, gilded mahogany frames and were upholstered in floral Beauvais tapestry. Today, options abound when it comes to style and material, with authentic leather offerings and classy steel settees. Plush, velvet chesterfields represent the platonic ideal of coziness.
Vladimir Kagan’s iconic sofa designs, such as the Crescent and the Serpentine — which, like the sectional sofas of the 1960s created by furniture makers such as Harvey Probber, are quite popular among mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts — showcase the spectrum of style available to modern consumers. Those looking to make a statement can turn to Studio 65’s lip-shaped Bocca sofa, which was inspired by the work of Salvador Dalí. Elsewhere, the furniture of the 1970s evokes an era when experimentation ruled, or at least provided a reason to break the rules. Just about every area of society felt a sudden urge to be wayward, to push boundaries — and buttons. Vintage leather sofas of that decade are characterized by a rare blending of the showy and organic.
With so many options, it’s important to explore and find the perfect furniture for your space. Paying attention to the lines of the cushions as well as the flow from the backrest into the arms is crucial to identifying a cohesive new piece for your home or office.
Fortunately, with styles from every era — and even round sofas — there’s a luxurious piece for every space. Deck out your living room with an Art Deco lounge or go retro with a nostalgic '80s design. No matter your sitting vision, the right piece is waiting for you in the expansive collection of unique sofas on 1stDibs.
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