SOFA STARS: Meet The Real Couchwives Of Leatherly Hills

Eda-Mame (designed by Piero Lissoni) mugs for the camera while Atoll (designed by Antonio Citterio) does the heavy lifting. Both sofas are available through B&B Italia.

SOFA STARS: Meet The Real Couchwives Of Leatherly Hills

The proverbial casting couch: The talents of Daniels (designed by Christophe Delcourt) are put to the test for a role in a much coveted biopic. Available through Minotti.

SOFA STARS: Meet The Real Couchwives Of Leatherly Hills

Gossip can be addictive. Backstage in their dressing room, the Piaf sofa indulges in the latest rumor mill. Available through Baxter.

SOFA STARS: Meet The Real Couchwives Of Leatherly Hills

It's awards season. While Rod Bean (designed by Piero Lissoni) accepts the trophy for best supporting role, Piaf is waiting in the wings. Available through Living Divani and Baxter respectively. In the audience: Traffic (designed by Konstantin Grcic), available through Magis.

SOFA STARS: Meet The Real Couchwives Of Leatherly Hills

After party in the hills. Daniels (Christophe Delcourt for Minotti) and Traffic (Konstantin Grcic for Magis) go for a dip. Surf (George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg for Molteni) and Gregor (far right, in blue, Vincent van Duysen for Molteni), Eda-Mame and Atoll (Piero Lissoni and Antonio Citterio for B&B Italia) mingle on the pool deck. Meanwhile, BFF (Marcel Wanders for Moooi) spreads their modular cubes in search of a willing dance partner. Hardly out of view, Greene (brown armchair, David Lopez Quincoces for Living Divani) and Traffic get to know each other intimately.

SOFA STARS: Meet The Real Couchwives Of Leatherly Hills

On Sunset Boulevard, everyone is ready for their close-up. On the billboard, from left to right: BFF (Moooi), Surf (Molteni), Eda-Mame (B&B Italia), Traffic (Magis), Rod Bean (Living Divani), Piaf (Baxter), and Daniels (Minotti). On the aspahlt: Atoll (B&B Italia).

SOFA STARS: Meet The Real Couchwives Of Leatherly Hills

As she plunked one cool chrome leg on the red carpet, she could feel a slight breeze beneath her. Had her satin cover slipped? It didn’t matter. Exposing her behind was nothing compared to what had happened at the last premiere, back when she was just a supporting actress playing a gummy white leather sofa in a campy sci-fi thriller. Today she was the star, and all those years she was labeled a D-list celebutante were finally behind her. Not that she’d regretted it. Everyone knew her performance as a scantily upholstered chaise in Teenage Spermaholics was the reason she’d achieved any fame at all.

On Sunset Boulevard, everyone is ready for their close-up. On the billboard, from left to right: BFF (Moooi), Surf (Molteni), Eda-Mame (B&B Italia), Traffic (Magis), Rod Bean (Living Divani), Piaf (Baxter), and Daniels (Minotti). On the aspahlt: Atoll (B&B Italia).

With all four legs now firmly pressed into the plush of the red carpet, she took her first pose for the cameras. The textile was stretched a bit tight around the curves of her polyurethane foam, making her feel a little light-headed, but she looked good. Snatched. With the first few photos out of the way, she felt all her pre-show anxieties begin to lift. Memories of grueling 16-hour days spent working castings only to arrive home stained, limp, and unsure of her next paycheck turned into fond nostalgia for her first breakout role. But today was her time to shine. She was almost at the entrance when a storm of flashes engulfed her. “Who are you wearing?!” a buxom blonde screeched from behind a velvet rope, shoving a micro-phone into her tufted side. They all asked her the same vapid questions, as if she were nothing more than a pretty piece of furniture. Her head started to spin. “Just ignore her,” she thought. But it was too late. The bubbly television host had already sat down on top of her.

Text by Taylore Scarabelli.

Images by Shawn Maximo.

Taken from PIN–UP 27, Fall Winter 2019/20.