Falling head over heels for emerald-green velvet When my partner and I moved into our Brooklyn apartment a couple of years ago, we had a dining table, a bed, and a few other pieces of foundational furniture?but not a sofa.
We had a few requirements: The sofa had to be comfortable enough for binge-watching (not too soft nor too firm), roomy enough for group hangs, and it had to look good.
Armed with these goals, we set out into the wilds of Manhattan?s furniture showrooms. We felt we?d graduated from Ikea (does anyone, really"), at least for this purchase. But we didn?t want to spend an arm and a leg. I quickly came to terms with the fact that my dream pick?the Mayor Sofa by Arne Jacobsen, recently re-issued by &Tradition?wasn?t going to happen; a $7,299 place to park our butts was hilariously outside our budget. We were willing to spend a seventh of that, max. We settled on a sofa from Room & Board?s Murphy line. We felt we?d gamed the system: We snagged a show-floor model, and got a steep discount for our willingness to take home a sofa that had been sat on by Manhattan?s weary shopping hordes. It came in a supple emerald-green velvet upholstery that was, to my surprise, the default color-and-fabric combination. We were triumphant.

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