"The hardest part of giving the piece a new life, Tory says, was choosing a new fabric, and she actually turned to a lot of framed artwork in her home for inspiration. "I started noticing just different hues of yellow," she says, so she took home several swatches from F&S Fabrics in Los Angeles and landed on a "lemon yellow" with "undertones of chartreuse green," as she describes. Tory says it was slightly difficult to choose a yellow that still felt calming."
"The sofa got a soft new chartreuse fabric. The second-hardest part of making the sofa her own was physically getting it up the stairs of her apartment (it's huge), but now it feels right at home. "It's a centerpiece," Tory says. "It's art. It's also community in a way ... It's just so easy to have fun and be able quite literally to turn in any direction and talk to anybody.""
Tory Tawlks purchased a secondhand, puzzle-like statement sofa and had it professionally reupholstered. The sofa now features a soft chartreuse, lemon-yellow fabric with undertones of chartreuse green chosen from swatches at F&S Fabrics in Los Angeles. Tory used framed artwork at home for inspiration and aimed for a yellow that felt calming rather than overpowering. The large, spin-capable silhouette encourages conversation and creates a playful focal point in the living room. Moving the piece upstairs was physically challenging, but the sofa functions as a centerpiece, art object, and communal seating. She describes the sofa as "spinning sunshine."
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