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dining chairs and stools

Poliform Sophie chair

Sophie is the classic shape of a dining chair, redrawn with generous proportions: a solid seat inside an enveloping outline. In 2020 it gained a lighter sibling, Sophie Lite, and a stool at counter height.

In the catalog
2017 to 2020
Pieces
3
Price
on request
Poliform Sophie chairs at a dining table, Poliform chairs

The same frame, two weights

The original Sophie is the substantial one. The seat is solid and the enveloping back holds the sitter, which is what makes it a chair people stay in after dinner. It is also the version that looks right around a heavy table in a room with some architecture to it.

Sophie Lite keeps the solid wood structure unchanged and reshapes the back into something thinner and more open. In a small dining area, or around a glass topped table, Lite is the one that does not fill the room, and the price gap is real enough to matter across six chairs.

The stool from 2020 takes the Lite proportions up to counter height, with an armrest drawn carefully enough that it clears a counter edge. Kitchens with an island are where most of these go, and matching the stool to the dining chair is what keeps an open plan room from looking assembled from two catalogs.

Covers run from fabric to leather, and on dining chairs we usually quote a wipeable option alongside whatever was asked for. A dining chair meets food more often than any other seat in the house.

Same solid wood frame. One back holds you, the other gets out of the way.

Poliform Sophie Lite stool at a counter, catalog photograph
  • Fabric
  • Leather
  • Wood
Poliform Sophie dining chairs and stools, photograph 1
Poliform Sophie dining chairs and stools, photograph 2
Poliform Sophie dining chairs and stools, photograph 3
Poliform Sophie dining chairs and stools, photograph 4

What is in the Sophie family

Poliform Sophie: pieces, types and materials as listed by the factory. Every price on request.
PieceTypeMade ofNotes
Poliform Sophie chairChairsSolid wood, fabric or leatherEnveloping back, since 2017
Poliform Sophie Lite chairChairsSolid wood, fabric or leatherLighter shaped back, 2020
Poliform Sophie Lite stoolStoolsSolid wood, fabric or leatherCounter height, 2020
How a Poliform Sophie piece is built up, layer by layerCoverfabric or leatherPaddingfoam over the seat shellSeat shellsolid, shaped seatFramesolid wood structuresection
A section through a Sophie seat, from cover to frame. Layers are named as the factory names them; thicknesses are drawn for reading, not to scale.

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