The perfect puff pieces to buy for your home

Add a hug to your house

By Megan Barber@megcbarber Aug 9, 2019, 11:30am EDT

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A light-filled living room features a bright yellow sofa, midcentury modern white and gold coffee table, and navy blue armchair. — Crate & Barrel’s new Kirby Deep Cushion Sofa ($1,499) is a squat, squishy, and very yellow take on modern seating.

Contemporary furniture stores are packed with boxy sofas and a mass of midcentury modern lookalikes. But as Curbed’s Diana Budds explains in a recent story, a growing number of designs are opting for a different silhouette.

Instead of sharp-angled glass tables or spindled legs, more designers are turning to rounder shapes, softer lines, and squat proportions. Stuff, Budds writes, that is “cute.”

The design world hasn’t always embraced cuteness, preferring to value the seriousness of sophisticated, high-brow art over whimsical forms that embrace humor and comfort. Budd believes that cute furniture may be a response to increasing anxiety over politics, economics, and culture—her deep dive is a must-read for design lovers.

But huggable, chunky decor is also just plain fun. We’ve rounded up a few products below that can help you capture the look in your own home.

Moustache Big Game Chair

$482

Available in an array of cheerful colors, these playful chairs feature tubular parts of metal embedded into each other and coated with a polyurethane foam.

$482 at Smallable

Large Llama Planter

This quirky, squat llama features four legs and an opening for greenery, a cute way to add some whimsy to your decor.

$18 at Urban Outfitters

Ophelia Amped Fleece Stool

Available in three different sizes, this super soft stools can work as a bench or ottoman and adds playful texture to any living room.

$39 at Urban Outfitters

Tom Dixon FAT Dining Chair

With tubular steel legs and oversized, rounded backs, this Tom Dixon chair collection is designed to “hug the body and allow for multiple sitting positions.”

$1 at 2Modern

Kirby Deep Cushion Sofa

Boasting a comfy, squishable seat and rounded curves, the Kirby sofa manages to marry a sculpted silhouette with a come-jump-on-me playfulness.

$1 at Crate & Barrel

Areaware Stacking Planter

Designed by Chen Chen and Kai Williams, these now iconic stoneware planters feature a clever hidden saucer in their base, and the wide, puffy rings manage to feel both cute and sleek.