Wilder upholstery patterns from the '70s and '80s are resurging across home tours, hospitality projects, and retail collections. Designers and retailers are introducing prints such as grids, checks, stripes, plaids, ginghams, and animal motifs onto contemporary sofa frames. Some designers apply vintage-inspired prints to modern pieces, producing playful or nostalgic statements. Brands report that colors and prints are dominant in current interiors, with stripes performing especially well and being carried into upholstery. The revival connects to retro styles and familiar motifs that elicit strong, recognizable responses and suit bulbous, period-reminiscent sofa silhouettes.
Scroll through your Instagram feed these days and you may notice that solid colors aren't the primary choices for couch upholstery anymore. From home tours to hospitality environments to new retail collections, wilder patterns seem to be repopulating from their '70s and '80s heyday in abundance-allowing you to bring a bit of printed splendor to your home. Take interior designer Fern Santini, who recently took a Perigold sofa and gave it a wild twist with Schumacher1889 leopards.
Of the shift to bolder patterns, Sara Khodja, the senior director of furniture design and development for CB2, calls it a "welcome change from trends such as ivory boucle," and notes that the brand has leaned into colors and prints because of their current dominance in the interiors space. "Stripes, in particular, have done well in our other categories, which is why we brought them into upholstery this season," Khodja adds.
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