Sarah Ellison’s Float Couch Is the Epitome of Stylish Consolation

Sarah Ellison solely had one objective for her new “Float” couch: for it to be comfy. So singular was this design goal, in actual fact, that each choice revolved round it: the sofa consists of squishy reminiscence foam, all stuffed into bulbous varieties harking back to an inflatable raft. (This visible likeness, by the way in which, impressed the very title of the piece: “After we completed designing it, we did take a look at it and suppose it reminded us a bit of little bit of a pool float. So ‘float’ felt like an ideal title,” Ellison says.) Then there’s the material: a luxurious velvet, soothing to the contact.

Ellison’s ethos additionally extends additional than simply the supplies. The velvet’s coloration—a wealthy brown—is supposed to be harking back to soil. “There’s nothing extra nurturing than the colour of dust,” Ellison explains. (Scientifically, she’s right: ideas of coloration concept state that people really feel a way of security and safety when surrounded by brown as a result of its affiliation with the earth.) “I feel all people type of wants the concept of nurturing in the mean time, because the world is a loopy place,” she provides.

The Australian maker, who designed the Float Couch alongside the Pantone Shade Institute, formally named the hue “piccolo”—a nod to small Italian espresso drinks of comparable shade.