Curved furniture is nothing new, but it’s also, somehow, the thing everybody wants right now. It’s in showrooms, on waitlists, in catalogs, and in many,manyinfluencer’s apartments. The curve, now also bending tables, seating, bed frames, and accessories, has migrated through every room of the house.
The instinct to design rounded, organic forms is as old as the postwar living room itself. Jean Royére’s Ours Polaire sofa, conceived in the late 1940s, established the curved couch, setting a template for seating so enveloping and soft that it felt more like a shelter than a piece of furniture. Vladimir Kagan arrived just a few years later with his first curved sofa, originally conceived around 1950—a design that bent away from the wall, freed up the space behind it, and invited conversation.
Decades later, the curved sofa is still highly sought after. Holly Hunt and the Vladimir Kagan Design Group recently reissued Kagan’s Original Curve Sofa on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, and Royére’s Ours Polaires has commanded millions at auction and reside in the apartments of tastemakers like Larry Gagosian and Christian Louboutin. When a pair of Royère Rouleaux sofas—an early precursor to the Polar Bear—were withdrawn from a recent Sotheby's sale after being identified as copies, it barely slowed demand.a
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