Eilersen – Danish Sofa designs
October 18, 2008
Eilersen Furniture.
Despite being Danish, it is difficult to find a still shot of these magnificent sofas outside of Japanese websites. That seems like a good sign to me!
We have been looking for a sofa pretty much ever since we got together nearly four years ago. He, being a stereotypical scandinavian when it comes to design, wants something very minimalistic and small. I, being swayed by both Scandinavian and Japanese design, yet wanting something that doesn´t turn my backside to a piece of plywood after 30 minutes of sitting, have found it a nearly insurmountable challenge to find a sofa that is comfortable and stylish and agreeable to both of us.
Perhaps we are lucky that disagreeing on a couch is one of our big relationship issues. Of course moving to Norway, negotiating years upon years in the chaos that is Belgium, and being homesick for North America have their real places in the pecking order of distress, but the couch is where everything meets and comes to a head.
Queue the Eilersen sofa.
Eilersen sofas are high-end, legendary for their comfort, and replete with modern, yet simple, stylish lines. One sits “in” – not on – one of these design marvels. The lead designer, Jens Juuls Eilsersen, says that he designs a sofa so you can “sit softly without tilting.
“ The new Krypton model, launched mid-2008, is particularly riveting. It has a thick core of foam at the top of the seat, and is upholstered with down. DOWN!
This one may be out of our price-range at the moment, but not all Eilersens are. While an investment, so is our freetime and maintaining some sense of harmony in our small little home.
I am certain we will have our Eilersen, available from Marnberg furniture, very, very soon. Global recession be damned!
Available in: Scandinavia, as well as the 30 countries Eilersen ships to worldwide.
About Eilersen: Eilersen was founded in 1895 and has remained a family business for four generations. It leads the high-end Danish sofa design in the Nordic region, and is of very high quality, comfort and design.
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I have recently purchased a 76″ eilersen sofa from Viking Trader furniture store in Berkeley California. I have been disappointed, not in the look, but in the stiff feel. I haven’t been able to find out the contents of the cushions other than the bit of down on the top which supposedly is the reason the cushions are not reversible (a real minus), The cushions are very heavy. Impossible to ‘fluff’ unless lifted off the couch and thrown on the floor. They are dense and leave an impression after one brief sitting. And yes, it does tilt. Disappointed Customer
Like the previous commenter, just bought an Eilersen sofa and is saddingly disappointed of the lack of comfort. Yes, the sofa tilt, in the wrong direction. It makes you feel like falling out of it. And no, the cushions are not reversible, very difficult to fluff, and above all uncomfortable. The massive down filling – which as a choice of material indeed is luxuriuos – is as massive a fault for filling. The cushion give no support, you are just slowly sinking trying to find out a way to stay in the sofa and not slowly slip down on the floor. The one thing that seem to be right is the quality of materials and the craftmanship (as much as I can judge after one month of use). But quality is of little interest when you can’t sit in the sofa.