The New Plan Section Sofa Series
“I recommend this system as opposed to the conventional full length sofa which kind of clogs up your life. The New Plan opens up the possibility of your space. ”
Why The New Plan Sectional?
Daniel Donnelly: For years we’ve been making site-specific orientation sofas where there’s solid units that lock you into a specific position, but this one enables you to change the layout in a variety of interesting ways. We’ve split the furniture into modules that can interact with each other or stand alone.
Each section (or module) is constructed differently. They’re laid out so they have a kind of an architecture to them. The way that you can create different vignettes with the modules is what I find most interesting. It builds capacity into the future of your interior space. You’re not locked into a specific format, or layout. It’s healthy to be able to rearrange your interiors. I do it often.
With traditional sofas, you’re held hostage by the dimension and the format of whatever it is. The New Plan was designed to fix exactly that. It has the capacity to be almost like a puzzle that you can just shift at will.
When you’re in a room, where do you want to be looking? A lot of people would just default in lining the furniture along the wall and I’d rather see the furniture in three dimension so it becomes architectural in the way that it creates spaces that flow through the room. How can you manipulate this? I like to do it seasonally, when you have snow outside, when you want to look out the windows, versus the summertime when it’s raining, you’d rather look at the TV. You don’t have one static situation.
You can acquire sections incrementally as your needs permit. It can be a cumulative process where you can start with some pieces and add others. I think that’s a different concept than most people have, when they just want to buy a sofa, that’s all. They bought their sofa! They’re happy! There’s no capacity to grow beyond that. We put sofas together that are a little more significant: people have a better, more comfortable, well-built sofa system than having to go out and constantly reinvent their space and buy new furniture every three years. Especially a sofa! They’re bulky. They’re expensive, cumbersome and problematic. To have a collection where you can have a capacity to expand and evolve, that’s the future of furniture.
The new plan sectional was originally five pieces total. A couple corners, an armless center, and what we call a half-back, which becomes like a chaise lounge when connected to a corner chair. When you intermix them, you can create an opening in the back to allow space access, and if you use this in the center of a room it actually defines a seating area and can help make the room a lot more friendly to use. For example, if you had a room in which you wanted to put a sofa in the middle and still be able to use the perimeter of the room. Ultimately, it can be configured in any way you desire. We have a set of standard dimensions but each piece can be customized to different lengths, widths, and height.
“Sometimes we do three sections. Sometimes we do two. It’s all based on scale and the scale of the room and the scale of the area that you’re using in the room. So that drives the bus for me. Each time it’s subjective, it’s different. There’s no standard formula for any of it. And that’s what I love.”
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