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Most people spend weeks choosing the right sofa and five minutes choosing the chairs around it. This is backward. In a well-designed room, the chair is often the piece that carries the most personality, the one that makes a guest look twice, the one that reveals something about the person who lives there, and the one that gives the room its signature.

Four chairs from Twigs Direct's collection make this case better than any other. Each speaks a different design language. Each belongs to a different kind of room. All four are worth knowing.

Aarna Armchair: When Heritage Meets the Modern Home

There is a category of furniture that feels like it has always existed, not as a trend, not as a contemporary invention, but as something that belongs to a longer tradition of making things beautifully. The Aarna Armchair is that kind of piece.

Crafted from solid wood with hand-carved detailing along the frame and an upholstered seat in a warm, considered fabric, the Aarna doesn't shout. It carries itself with the quiet confidence of something genuinely well-made. The carved detailing on the arms and backrest is not decoration for decoration's sake; it is the kind of ornamentation that reveals the hand of the craftsperson, that makes the piece feel individual rather than manufactured.

In a living room, the Aarna works as a standalone reading chair positioned near a window with a small side table and a lamp. In a heritage or transitional interior, it pairs naturally with dark wood flooring, antique-finish metals, and layered textiles. It is a chair that rewards slowing down, the kind you choose over the sofa when you want to actually sit rather than sink.

Arlo Accent Chair: The Living Room's Most Interesting Corner

An accent chair is not a seating arrangement. It is a design decision. And the Arlo Accent Chair is a design decision that consistently makes rooms look more considered than they did before it arrived.

The Arlo is defined by its buttoned backrest, a button-tufted surface that adds texture and dimension to what might otherwise be a plain upholstered form, and its flared arms, which give the silhouette a generous, welcoming quality. Solid wood legs in a dark finish ground the piece and connect it to the room's material warmth.

What makes the Arlo work across so many different interiors is its proportional balance. It is large enough to have a genuine presence; you notice it when you walk into the room, but contained enough not to overwhelm a smaller living area. In a neutral interior (cream walls, a warm rug, natural wood furniture), the Arlo adds a moment of character without disrupting the room's calm. In a bolder interior, it holds its own.

Style it with a single throw across one arm and a small side table beside it. Keep the rest of the corner simple. The chair does the work.

Cradle Lounge Chair: The Chair That Changes How You Spend Evenings at Home

There is a specific kind of relaxation that a well-designed lounge chair enables deeper than a sofa, more intentional than an armchair. The Cradle Lounge Chair understands this completely.

The Cradle's rounded back creates a gently enveloping form; you don't just sit in it, you settle into it. The upholstered seat and back work together with a solid timber base that gives the chair a grounded, architectural quality even as the overall form invites you to lean back and stay. The proportions are carefully resolved: low enough to feel relaxed, structured enough to provide genuine back support.

This is the chair for the corner of a bedroom that has been waiting for a reason to exist, the corner that currently has a pile of clothes on a bench or nothing at all. A Cradle Lounge Chair in that corner, with a floor lamp behind it and a small book on the seat, transforms that corner into the most inviting spot in the room. It is also the chair for the living room that already has a good sofa but needs a single piece to complete the seating conversation.

In Japandi or Scandinavian-inspired interiors, the Cradle is an especially natural fit; its rounded form and timber base speak the same material language as the rest of the room.

Arden Recliner: The Honest Luxury of a Chair That Actually Lets You Rest

Every other chair on this list asks something of you, asks you to sit upright, to be present in the room, to contribute to the composition. The Arden Recliner asks only one thing: that you stop and rest.

This is not a criticism. It is the point. The Arden is a high-back recliner with a headrest that supports the full length of the spine, a matching ottoman that extends the seating surface into a near-horizontal position, and an upholstered form in a warm, textured fabric that is genuinely comfortable in a way that most furniture aspires to and few achieve.

What separates the Arden from the category of recliners that exist purely for function is its design. The high back has a considered silhouette, not just tall, but shaped. The fabric and finish are chosen with the same attention to warmth and quality that defines the rest of the collection. The result is a recliner that belongs in a well-designed room that doesn't require you to hide it behind the good furniture or apologize for its presence.

Place the Arden in a media room, a home library, or a bedroom reading corner. Pair it with a wooden side table, a warm lamp, and nothing else. This is the chair that makes staying home feel like an active choice rather than a default.

The Chair as the Room's Point of View

A sofa is a decision about how many people you want to seat. A chair is a decision about who you are in a room. The Aarna Armchair says: I value craft and heritage. The Arlo Accent Chair says, "I notice the details." The Cradle Lounge Chair says: I designed this room to live in, not just to look at. The Arden Recliner says: comfort is not a compromise, it is a choice.

Four chairs. Four points of view. All four are worth sitting in.

You’ve got the sofa. You’ve got the rug. You’ve got decent lighting. And yet  something feels off. The room looks put together, but not designed. Furnished, but not finished.

Here’s the truth most interior guides won’t tell you: the gap between a good room and a great one isn’t another big purchase. It’s the small objects. The things on your walls. The things on your coffee table. The pieces that catch someone’s eye when they walk in and make them think  whoever lives here actually cares.

Four product categories do this better than anything else: wall clocks, photo frames, candle holders, and coasters. Used well, they transform a living room without touching a single piece of furniture.

The Wall Clock: Stop Ignoring Your Biggest Canvas

Most people treat the wall clock as a background object. It gets hung somewhere empty and forgotten. This is one of the most underused opportunities in living room styling.

The Petals Wall Clock (Large) changes how you think about this entirely. Carved from natural pine with sunflower-inspired petals radiating outward from a clean, numberless face  this is not a timepiece that blends into the wall. Against a charcoal or slate-grey accent wall, the warm honey tones of the wood create a contrast that stops people mid-conversation. Against a lighter cream or off-white wall, it reads as the kind of sculptural accent most people would frame rather than hang as a clock.

The rule is simple: give it wall space, and let it breathe. No gallery arrangement around it, no competing prints. Solo. Central. Confident.

For rooms with a darker, more architectural character  walnut tones, clean lines, Japandi leanings  the Rhythm Wall Clock is the answer. Dark wood, geometric structure, vertical slats forming a diamond that draws the eye and holds it. Both clocks are designed to be the first thing you notice when you walk into a room, which is exactly what a great wall piece should do.

The Photo Frame: Make It Personal Without Making It Chaotic

A photo wall done right tells a story. Done wrong, it’s just a collection of random sizes that makes visitors look away quickly.

The BOLD Photo Frame in Teal and Walnut takes the guesswork out of the aesthetic. The rich teal accent against a warm walnut base is a combination that’s distinctive without being loud  it elevates whatever is inside it, whether that’s a black-and-white travel photograph, a botanical print, or a family moment you actually want to look at every day.

The approach that works: choose two or three BOLD frames in complementary sizes, lay the arrangement on the floor before touching the wall, and keep the spacing between frames consistent  around 6 centimeters. One large landscape frame as the anchor, flanked by smaller portrait frames. Let the walnut tones of the frames tie back to the wood in your furniture and clock, so the room builds a material story across the wall.

The Candle Holder: Everyday Ambiance, Not Just for Occasions

Here’s what most people get wrong about candle holders: they’re packed away between festivals and only brought out for guests. This is a styling mistake.

The Arka Totem Wooden Candle Holder (Large) is a stacked sculptural form that earns its place on a coffee table every single day  lit or unlit. Its geometric layering catches afternoon light, creates interest from every angle, and pairs naturally with the Pebble Candle Holder, whose smooth, rounded form provides an organic counterpoint to the Totem’s structure. Together, they create a coffee table arrangement that looks genuinely thoughtful rather than accidental.

For the console or side table, the Ombre Candle Holder  with its gradient tone shift from base to top  adds a subtle visual quality that changes as the light in the room changes. It’s the kind of piece that rewards being looked at slowly.

One arrangement that consistently works: Arka Totem at one end of the coffee table, a small stack of two books at the other, and the Fissure coaster set in between. Everything warm, everything wooden, everything in conversation with each other.

The Coaster Set: The Smallest Piece with the Loudest Statement

A coaster is the most overlooked object in a living room and the one that communicates the most about how carefully a space has been considered. A rubber or cork coaster on a beautiful coffee table is a contradiction the eye notices even when the mind doesn’t.

The Fissure Wooden Coaster (5 Piece Set) is handcrafted from solid teak, with a natural split detail running through each piece and a hand-placed butterfly joint that reinforces the split while becoming the object’s signature detail. Because teak grain varies naturally from piece to piece, no two Fissure coasters are identical  which gives the set the quiet character of something genuinely made rather than manufactured.

Style two or three coasters slightly offset in a stack at one corner of the coffee table when not in use. It reads as intentional, not forgotten. Pair with the Arka Totem, and you have a coffee table arrangement that looks like it took a stylist to create  and took you five minutes to put together.

The Room, Complete

Wall: Petals Wall Clock or Rhythm Wall Clock  solo, eye level, space to breathe.

Adjacent wall: BOLD Photo Frames in a three-piece arrangement, consistent spacing, warm walnut echoing the clock.

Coffee table: Fissure Coaster Set stacked at one end, Arka Totem at the other, Pebble Candle Holder beside it.

Console: Ombre Candle Holder flanked by a dried botanical stem and one horizontal book.

Everything wooden. Everything warm. Everything chosen with intention.

That’s the difference between a furnished room and a designed one  and it doesn’t require a single piece of new furniture.

You’ve got the sofa. You’ve got the rug. You’ve got decent lighting. And yet  something feels off. The room looks put together, but not designed. Furnished, but not finished.

Here’s the truth most interior guides won’t tell you: the gap between a good room and a great one isn’t another big purchase. It’s the small objects. The things on your walls. The things on your coffee table. The pieces that catch someone’s eye when they walk in and make them think  whoever lives here actually cares.

Four product categories do this better than anything else: wall clocks, photo frames, candle holders, and coasters. Used well, they transform a living room without touching a single piece of furniture.

The Wall Clock: Stop Ignoring Your Biggest Canvas

Most people treat the wall clock as a background object. It gets hung somewhere empty and forgotten. This is one of the most underused opportunities in living room styling.

The Petals Wall Clock (Large) changes how you think about this entirely. Carved from natural pine with sunflower-inspired petals radiating outward from a clean, numberless face  this is not a timepiece that blends into the wall. Against a charcoal or slate-grey accent wall, the warm honey tones of the wood create a contrast that stops people mid-conversation. Against a lighter cream or off-white wall, it reads as the kind of sculptural accent most people would frame rather than hang as a clock.

The rule is simple: give it wall space, and let it breathe. No gallery arrangement around it, no competing prints. Solo. Central. Confident.

For rooms with a darker, more architectural character  walnut tones, clean lines, Japandi leanings  the Rhythm Wall Clock is the answer. Dark wood, geometric structure, vertical slats forming a diamond that draws the eye and holds it. Both clocks are designed to be the first thing you notice when you walk into a room, which is exactly what a great wall piece should do.

The Photo Frame: Make It Personal Without Making It Chaotic

A photo wall done right tells a story. Done wrong, it’s just a collection of random sizes that makes visitors look away quickly.

The BOLD Photo Frame in Teal and Walnut takes the guesswork out of the aesthetic. The rich teal accent against a warm walnut base is a combination that’s distinctive without being loud  it elevates whatever is inside it, whether that’s a black-and-white travel photograph, a botanical print, or a family moment you actually want to look at every day.

The approach that works: choose two or three BOLD frames in complementary sizes, lay the arrangement on the floor before touching the wall, and keep the spacing between frames consistent  around 6 centimeters. One large landscape frame as the anchor, flanked by smaller portrait frames. Let the walnut tones of the frames tie back to the wood in your furniture and clock, so the room builds a material story across the wall.

The Candle Holder: Everyday Ambiance, Not Just for Occasions

Here’s what most people get wrong about candle holders: they’re packed away between festivals and only brought out for guests. This is a styling mistake.

The Arka Totem Wooden Candle Holder (Large) is a stacked sculptural form that earns its place on a coffee table every single day  lit or unlit. Its geometric layering catches afternoon light, creates interest from every angle, and pairs naturally with the Pebble Candle Holder, whose smooth, rounded form provides an organic counterpoint to the Totem’s structure. Together, they create a coffee table arrangement that looks genuinely thoughtful rather than accidental.

For the console or side table, the Ombre Candle Holder  with its gradient tone shift from base to top  adds a subtle visual quality that changes as the light in the room changes. It’s the kind of piece that rewards being looked at slowly.

One arrangement that consistently works: Arka Totem at one end of the coffee table, a small stack of two books at the other, and the Fissure coaster set in between. Everything warm, everything wooden, everything in conversation with each other.

The Coaster Set: The Smallest Piece with the Loudest Statement

A coaster is the most overlooked object in a living room and the one that communicates the most about how carefully a space has been considered. A rubber or cork coaster on a beautiful coffee table is a contradiction the eye notices even when the mind doesn’t.

The Fissure Wooden Coaster (5 Piece Set) is handcrafted from solid teak, with a natural split detail running through each piece and a hand-placed butterfly joint that reinforces the split while becoming the object’s signature detail. Because teak grain varies naturally from piece to piece, no two Fissure coasters are identical  which gives the set the quiet character of something genuinely made rather than manufactured.

Style two or three coasters slightly offset in a stack at one corner of the coffee table when not in use. It reads as intentional, not forgotten. Pair with the Arka Totem, and you have a coffee table arrangement that looks like it took a stylist to create  and took you five minutes to put together.

The Room, Complete

Wall: Petals Wall Clock or Rhythm Wall Clock  solo, eye level, space to breathe.

Adjacent wall: BOLD Photo Frames in a three-piece arrangement, consistent spacing, warm walnut echoing the clock.

Coffee table: Fissure Coaster Set stacked at one end, Arka Totem at the other, Pebble Candle Holder beside it.

Console: Ombre Candle Holder flanked by a dried botanical stem and one horizontal book.

Everything wooden. Everything warm. Everything chosen with intention.

That’s the difference between a furnished room and a designed one  and it doesn’t require a single piece of new furniture.

There is a difference between a bedroom that looks furnished and a bedroom that looks designed. Most people can sense it the moment they walk in. The first has all the expected pieces in place a bed, a wardrobe, a couple of side tables. The second makes you slow down, feel something, want to stay.

The biggest variable between these two outcomes is almost always the bed. Not the mattress. Not the bedding. The bed frame itself the silhouette, the upholstery, the headboard is what determines whether a bedroom commands attention or simply occupies space.

The Seraphine Bed: When a Headboard Becomes Architecture

The Seraphine Bed is one of those rare pieces that announces itself without trying. A sculptural upholstered platform king bed with a dramatic winged headboard, it is defined by a sweeping form that curves and rises with genuine architectural intent. The hand-applied gold inlay detail running along the headboard’s contour and continuing down to the base corners is the kind of accent that photographs beautifully but looks even better in person, where it catches changing light throughout the day.

What makes the Seraphine genuinely interesting as a design object is its ability to balance drama with livability. The winged headboard creates a sense of enclosure around the sleeping area psychologically restful, visually commanding without the bed becoming oppressive in the room. The cream and ivory upholstery keeps the overall effect warm and soft, so the gold accent reads as a considered detail rather than an ostentatious one.

Built from premium woods including Oak, White Ash, and Teak, the Seraphine is a bed that earns its place in a master bedroom over the years, not just on the day it arrives. The structural quality is evident in the frame's weight and solidity this is not a bed you need to worry about.

Styling note: The Seraphine works best in warm, neutral bedrooms cream walls, warm-toned lighting, layered bedding in ivory and dusty rose. A large abstract artwork above the headboard and a matching bench at the foot of the bed complete the suite's look.

The Eira Bed: The Art of Restraint

Where the Seraphine makes a statement, the Eira Bed practices restraint. This is a fully upholstered king-size bed defined by softness, calm proportions, and a quiet presence that suits interiors that value composure over drama.

The Eira’s headboard provides genuine enclosure and comfort tall enough to lean against naturally, shaped gently enough not to feel architectural while the clean lines and smooth upholstery surface keep the overall form uncluttered. There is no tufting, no decorative stitching, no hardware. Just beautifully executed form in premium fabric, made to sit naturally in the room rather than demand attention from it.

This is the bed for a bedroom that is already considered. If you have warm wooden flooring, sheer curtains that filter afternoon light, a carefully chosen rug, and nightstands that mean something the Eira slots into that environment and makes everything feel more intentional. It works as an anchor without dominating the room, creating what might best be described as a hotel-level atmosphere: layered, calm, and thoroughly composed.

The Eira also comes with built-in storage, which makes it a genuinely practical choice for bedrooms where under-bed storage would otherwise be wasted space. The storage mechanism is flush and clean, with no visual interruption to the bed’s overall profile.

Made to order, the Eira can be customized in upholstery and finish, allowing it to be adapted to different room palettes without compromising the design.

The Lars Bed: Understated Luxury with a Bench Finish

The Lars Bed available in queen size represents a third design language entirely: the refined, clean-lined platform bed that draws its authority from proportion rather than decoration.

The silhouette is deliberate. A low-profile rectangular headboard in smooth neutral upholstery, a clean base without ornamentation, and an overall form that prioritizes visual calm over visual interest. This is a bed that works in rooms with warm ambient lighting, layered neutral bedding, and the kind of styling that results from considered choices made over time.

What elevates the Lars setup aesthetically is its natural pairing with a foot-of-bed bench such as the Ansel Upholstered Bench, which shares the same design language: clean lines, timber block feet, softly textured fabric. Together, the bed and bench create a visual continuity at the foot of the room that reads as genuinely luxurious the equivalent of what a five-star hotel bedroom achieves with coordinated upholstery and furniture.

In practical terms, the bench at the foot of the bed also transforms how a bedroom functions: it becomes a place to sit when dressing, to lay out the next day’s clothes, or simply to break the visual monotony of an uninterrupted mattress surface.

The Lars suite rooms have sheer curtains, warm ambient lighting from bedside lamps, and a layered rug. Keep the bedding neutral a white or cream base with warm brown and taupe accents and let the bed's architecture do the work.

What These Three Beds Have in Common

The Seraphine, the Eira, and the Lars represent three genuinely distinct design positions sculptural and dramatic, calm and restrained, minimal and proportional. But they share something more fundamental: they are all beds that were designed with intention.

The headboard shape, the upholstery choice, the base proportions, the material quality in each case, these decisions are the result of a coherent design point of view, not a compromise between competing requirements. That is what separates a piece of furniture from a piece of design.

And in a bedroom, where you begin and end every day, that distinction matters more than in any other room in the house.

The living room sofa used to be a practical decision. Size, seating capacity, durability, fabric that could survive daily life   these were the criteria. The sofa was furniture. It was there to be sat on.

Something has shifted. In the most thoughtfully designed homes across Indian cities today, the sofa is a design statement before it is a seating arrangement. The form, the silhouette, the fabric colour, the scale relative to the room   these are the decisions that determine whether a living room feels like it was designed or simply furnished. And the range of sofa designs available now reflects this shift in how people are thinking about the space.

This is a guide to the five sofa design directions that are defining contemporary living rooms right now   and why each one works.

1. The Curved Statement Sofa: A Silhouette That Changes the Room

No single piece of furniture has captured the imagination of contemporary interior designers more comprehensively than the curved sofa. And not the gentle curve of a traditional barrel-back sofa   the fully committed architectural curve, the kidney or crescent silhouette that wraps around the seating area and creates an enclosed, conversational space within the larger room.

The most compelling versions combine cream or ivory boucle upholstery with a dark walnut or wenge wood base accented with a thin line of brushed gold. This combination   soft, light fabric above a dark, rich material base   creates a visual layering that reads as genuinely luxurious. The gold detail, used sparingly at the joint between base and seat, provides the accent that makes the form legible from across the room.

These sofas work best in open-plan living areas with sufficient floor space to let the curve breathe   ideally with a round marble or stone coffee table at the centre of the arc. They are not subtle pieces, but they don't need to be. In the right room, a curved sofa is the entire design conversation.

2. The Sectional and L-Shape: Serious Comfort at Serious Scale

For living rooms that need to accommodate a family or regular gatherings, the sectional sofa has evolved far beyond the boxy, overstuffed configurations of a decade ago. The contemporary sectional   particularly in the U-shape or curved modular form   now offers the same design ambition as a statement sofa, at a scale that actually seats people comfortably.

The version garnering the most attention right now features a continuous curved sectional in cream upholstery with deep terracotta or rust accent cushions. The warm orange-red of the cushions against the neutral base fabric is a colour combination that photographs beautifully and ages gracefully   the warmth never goes out of fashion, and the individual accent colours can be refreshed as preferences evolve.

3. Evara Curved Sofa: Texture as the Design Language

The bubble or cloud sofa   characterised by deeply rounded, individual seat and back cushions arranged in a continuous horizontal form   represents the most overtly tactile direction in contemporary sofa design. Running three, four, or even five seats wide, these sofas prioritise a sense of softness and depth over clean-lined structure.

In caramel brown or warm tobacco velvet, a bubble sofa makes no pretence of being anything other than extremely comfortable. But the best examples also have genuine visual sophistication   the rhythm of the rounded cushions creates a sense of movement and depth that a flat cushion sofa simply does not achieve.

4. Vector Modular Sofa: Committing to Colour

The most common advice about sofa colour is to stay neutral. It is also, increasingly, advice that design-forward homeowners are choosing to ignore.

A deep navy or ocean blue upholstered sofa   whether a clean three-seater on tapered wood legs or a modular sectional   introduces a depth of colour into a living room that no rug or wall art can replicate. Against warm wooden flooring and cream walls, blue reads as a grounded, sophisticated accent rather than a bold risk. Add warm-toned cushions and a natural material rug, and the blue becomes the compositional anchor of the room.

5. Verd Sectional Sofa: The Colour Moment That's Here to Stay

Jewel-toned green sofas   bottle green, forest green, sage with a depth to it   have graduated from trend to genuine design staple. A compact two or three-seater in deep teal or hunter green with tapered black metal legs works in almost any well-lit living room with neutral walls. It introduces personality without demanding a complete redesign of the space around it.

The Indian living room is no longer content with safe, interchangeable furniture. These five sofa directions  curved statement, sectional, bubble, blue, green  are the evidence. Each represents a commitment to the idea that the sofa is the room's most important design decision, not its most functional one.