Love the furniture, but most likely if you live in a small space you can not afford to buy the architect-designed classics.

I need to furnish a small livingroom in my new apartment in Milan and I was thinking about the LC2 couch. My concern was that it is not very comfy for a home couch, it is more suitable for a waiting room!
I looked for another leather couch just as width and I finally found it in… Ikea! It is a new model (SKOGABY), very slim and very, very comfortable.

Architects design the worst furniture. They may do wonderful buildings, but my experience has been that when they try to design anything else they run into problems.

@k1tsun3

ouch! i know everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but claiming that the likes of eames, saarinen, mies, aalto, and corbusier, design the worst furniture..? not a fan of MCM i take it?

Anyone know of anything similar to the Barcelona Couch but for maybe 1/10 the cost?

Barcelona couch, Hummmm... $8200.00 for something that appears to have come from the shoe fitting area of an REI store....

@ krisse, have you looked at the new york small spaces? not only do those small spaces cost more than the big honkers out west or somewhere else, the furniture in them is usually designer...

The LC2 does not look remotely comfortable. I mean, a backrest that low is like not having a backrest at all. I also feel like there's a lot of pointless mass to the sofa below the cushions. I mean, it's a look, I guess.

The barcelona couch also doesn't look very comfortable, but that depends on whether you feel every tuft or if it is more forgiving than that. I don't understand the pillow roll, though. It does not look like a comfortable neckrest at all.

I find it interesting that furniture pieces that were designed in the first half of the last century, some more than 80 YEARS AGO, are still the ones predominantly featured in images showing "modern", "clean lines", or even "contemporary" design. They are doubtless amazing examples; beautiful and bold. There have been new designers born since then, though… some that are actually good! But somehow the world seems to have gotten stuck in that time frame and refuses to budge. This is not only evidenced by the myriad of decoration and interior design media, but by the absolute dearth of options. I see that there are only four ways to go when trying to furnish a room with new furniture:
1. Buying the above mentioned 80 year old design originals from reputable manufacturers, or compromising your morals with the horrendous replicas;
2. Importing ultra-expensive European contemporary pieces;
3. Succumbing to the even more hideous yet overwhelmingly ubiquitous, overstuffed, giant monstrosities with names like "Tuscan Style" and "Suchandsuch Villa" from Ashley, Thomasville, etc.; or
4. IKEA.
As an architectural designer myself, I strive for a balance of aesthetics, function and budget. I think that the best so far has been the “scavenger posts” on this site.
If you find a good piece that fits your style, satisfies your needs and that you can afford, perhaps you should invest in it, and in the likely hungry young designer that made it. Maybe 80 years from now it’ll be in the cover of the latest magazine…