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horizontal lines in two rooms

Poliform Brera sofa and bed

Brera is Jean-Marie Massaud working in straight lines. The sofa came first, in 2022, as a fixed piece rather than a modular system, and the bed and bedside tables followed in 2024 with the same low, horizontal build.

Designer
Jean-Marie Massaud
In the catalog
2022 to 2024
Pieces
3
Price
on request
Poliform Brera sofa in a living room, Poliform seating

Fixed, not modular, and that is the point

Almost everything else in this catalog is a system. Brera is not: the sofa is a fixed piece with a set width, and the design depends on that. A modular sofa has to hide its seams and repeat its module; a fixed one can run one horizontal line from arm to arm, and that line is what you are buying.

It is also generous rather than compact. The seat is wide and the proportions are long, so Brera reads well in a room with a clear wall behind it and poorly in a room where it has to turn a corner. If your living room needs a chaise, this is the wrong family, and we will say so.

The bed from 2024 carries the same architecture into the bedroom. Low, horizontal, quiet, with a headboard that continues the line instead of interrupting it. It is the natural companion to the sofa if you are furnishing a whole apartment in one go.

The bedside tables come in two sizes, and the smaller one is drawn to sit inside the footprint of the bed rather than beside it. In a bedroom where the bed nearly fills the wall, that detail is the difference between a night table and no night table at all.

A fixed sofa can hold one unbroken horizontal line. A modular one cannot.

Poliform Brera bed with a low headboard, catalog photograph
  • Leather
  • Marble
Poliform Brera horizontal lines in two rooms, photograph 1
Poliform Brera horizontal lines in two rooms, photograph 2
Poliform Brera horizontal lines in two rooms, photograph 3
Poliform Brera horizontal lines in two rooms, photograph 4

What is in the Brera family

Poliform Brera: pieces, types and materials as listed by the factory. Every price on request.
PieceTypeMade ofNotes
Poliform Brera sofaSofasFabric or leather, fixed widthNot modular, since 2022
Poliform Brera bedBedsFabric or leather, low frameAmerican mattress sizes, since 2024
Poliform Brera bedside tableStorage UnitsWood, lacquer, marble topTwo sizes, one fits inside the bed footprint
How a Poliform Brera piece is built up, layer by layerCoverfabric or leather, by gradeWrappingfibre or down over the foamPaddingpolyurethane foam, variable densitySuspensionelastic belts on the frameFramesolid wood and steelsection
A section through a Brera seat, from cover to frame. Layers are named as the factory names them; thicknesses are drawn for reading, not to scale.

Jean-Marie Massaud

Massaud calls Brera architectural, and the bed makes the case: it is drawn as a plinth, not as furniture.

More by Jean-Marie Massaud

  • BreraBeds · 2024
  • BreraStorage Units · 2024
  • BreraSofas · 2022

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