The One Anthropologie Find I Can’t Stop Buying (It’s Always So Luxe!)

There’s a lot to love about Anthropologie Home — quality furniture that toes the line between vintage and modern beautifully, glassware and decor for setting the cutest tables, and gorgeous lighting (including a personal favorite, the Eloise milk glass pendant). One category of products you might be sleeping on, though, is actually bedroom-adjacent: Anthropologie’s throw pillows.

I’m all about a seasonal pillow swap, but initially I tried to limit my purchases to just covers for storage reasons. I quickly realized, though, that many of my first apartment pillows were flattening out, likely because the inserts were never that good-quality to begin with. That’s when I started working Anthropologie’s throw pillows into the mix. 

The first Anthro pillow I bought was a long lumbar for a one-and-done accent for my NYC apartment bed, shown above. I still have that pillow in rotation, and I’ve purchased two others that are similar since (a striped style from the second Soho Home collab back in 2019 and a Katie Hodges floral from early 2024).

Not only does Anthro Home make a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and styles of pillows, but they’re all also incredibly good-quality — especially for the price. That’s true of the fabric covers but also the inserts, which are mostly polyester fills. That means very comfy — and super lofty! — and not really in need of much fluffing the way down requires.

Even as I’ve begun working with upholsterers to make bespoke textiles for my home, I still come back to Anthro pillows because they’re that good. And I’m going to let you in on one of my biggest pillow shopping secrets below. 

The key to finding the best throw pillows at Anthropologie is to shop for a style with a zipper. Anything that has one will always be a bit more versatile than something without one, as the cover can be removed and temporarily replaced, should you want to do a seasonal pillow switch-up. You can absolutely put a cover over a fabric-covered pillow, but the fit is better when you’re working with just an insert.

I watch the Anthropologie Home sale section like a hawk for interesting shapes and styles. That’s how I scored an oversized bolster version of the Fiora Ribbed Velvet Pillow for $44.97 with Anthro’s sale-on-sale promotion (which I also have in two colors in the 22-inch square size, but more on that later). 

Long bolster shapes tend to be pricey — typically $100 to $200+ from similar brands — so this might be one of my best pillow purchases to date. I had a one-of-a-kind cover made for it out of vintage fabric I found for cheap at the Paris flea market. So for less than what it’d cost me for, say, one readymade Lulu and Georgia version, I now have an amazing bed pillow with not one but two covers I can swap out. 

I took the liberty of starting you off in your Anthro pillow search with these picks below. Again, pay attention to the zipper-or-no-zipper factor — as well as Anthro’s sometimes stackable promos — to start building your best pillow collection ever.