A re you sitting comfortably? Upright or sprawling, may I ask. Sofas probably look and feel a little different since you last bought one. Many designers consider the pandemic accelerated a change in the way we use our living room seating, for protracted lolling rather than pitstopping, and so they now create more designs for slouching and fewer for perching. Elongated low-slung sectionals and cloudlike couches with abbreviated backrests and little in the way of arms dominate the new collections. These machines for slumping are easy on the eye and lend an agreeable informality to an interior.

But what if you are more of a percher than a sloucher? Sabina Miller, head of buying at the furniture company Heal’s, points to the Sonno sofa, a mid-century-look

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