Good Questions: Sofa Identification? Los Angeles

Good Questions: Sofa Identification?
Los Angeles

Hi there,
I'm trying to find the designer of this sofa seen with Ida Pearle's alphabet cards in the background. I asked Ida but she said it was something the stylist brought to the photo shoot. The other is from a past house tour. I can't locate the tour featured (below jump) but it seems to be similar to the one in Ida's shoot. Any ideas as to who might make this sofa? Tufted seat, three cushions, dark grey, metal legs, extended seat? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you!!! -shelley

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Comments (11)

Could it be from Daniel Donnelly in Arlington VA?
http://www.danieldonnelly.com/n_seating.htm
You have to scroll down the page a little.
There's a much less expensive but similar sofa sold by CB2:
http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=102&f=5058&viewall=1
I've seen the real thing at their NY store and it looks very well made and it's quite comfortable. They're way better than West Elm IMO.

posted by BrooklynRob on March 19th 2009 at 8:33pm
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It's definitely not exactly the same, but Gus Modern makes some that are fairly similar.

http://www.gusmodern.com/products1/sofas/carter-sofa/carter-sofa.shtml#carter-sofa

posted by moni-ka in ky on March 19th 2009 at 8:57pm
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This one is from Blu Dot, it's similar but with only two cushions but it looks like the larger size comes with three:

http://www.bludot.com/Browse_Products/Seating/product/Paramount_studio

posted by Elizacb on March 19th 2009 at 10:36pm
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Did you read this from SF?

THE COUCH IS A REPRODUCTION COPY OF BASICALLY AN EDWARD WORMLEY. IF YOU LOOK FOR WORMLEY STUFF YOU WILL FIND MANY LIKE IT. I'VE RUN INTO A FEW PROBLEMS WITH IT - SO TO DO IT RIGHT - THE BEST PLACE TO GET A COUTCH LIKE IT, AND CUSTOM MADE TO FIT YOU IS Ten10site.com

posted by sunan on March 19th 2009 at 11:09pm
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Wormly sofa by Dunbar, of course $13K is too much.
Of course http://www.bombastfurniture.com/ has the Urban Ease ll for about $4K

http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=276104

posted by SBMODERN on March 20th 2009 at 8:24am
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I was just at this store last night and I think this is the same sofa: http://www.shopfosters.com/store/product.php?productid=3735&cat=329&page=1

posted by rikki on March 20th 2009 at 8:35am
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No its not the GUS sofa-the gus sofa has a much wider arm and no t cushion.
The blu dot one is closer-
Both of the above are unfortunately made in China-

posted by montreal modern on March 20th 2009 at 8:57am
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Wormley had wood legs, not metal.

The second image, the 2 seater, looks just like what Daniel Donnelly caries. Bet they are responsible for the 3 seater too.

Very nice sofa!

posted by mschatelaine on March 20th 2009 at 12:06pm
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I don't know where that particular sofa comes from but this is similar and you could customize to those specs:

http://www.thesofaco.com/pages/SofaProductDetails.aspx?GalleryId=1&SofaID=314

I almost bought the blu dot sofa but the fabric was SO uncomfortable....

posted by Bridget212323 on March 20th 2009 at 12:43pm
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I have that sofa.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yardsale01/2409140870/

I don't think they make this particular model anymore, but its from modernica.

posted by Yardsale on March 28th 2009 at 1:29pm
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I have a Daniel Donnelly series 4907 sofa (3 cushion) that looks like this that I bought in December. I have it for sell if anyone is interested. We're moving and I'll be selling this along with a DWR Lino sleeper sofa.

posted by sloflin7341 on June 25th 2009 at 4:09pm
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