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curved seating on a firm base

Poliform Owen sofa and armchair

Owen is Jean-Marie Massaud looking back at mid-century design without copying it: fluid curves above, a strict architectural structure below. The sofa and the armchair arrived together in 2025.

Designer
Jean-Marie Massaud
In the catalog
2025
Pieces
2
Price
on request
Poliform Owen sofa in a living room, Poliform seating

Soft on top, strict underneath

The mid-century reference is in the silhouette, not in the details. There is no button tufting and no tapered teak leg doing an impression of 1958. What Owen takes is the posture of that period: a seat that curves generously while the structure holding it stays rectilinear and visible.

That combination is why the family survives in a modern apartment where a genuine mid-century piece would look like a quotation. It sits beside contemporary architecture without arguing with it, which is exactly what Poliform builds for.

Cocooning is the word the factory uses, and it is accurate for the armchair: the curve comes far enough forward at the sides to hold you. In a pair, facing each other across a low table, the two chairs make a conversation area in the middle of a larger room.

Being new, Owen is not yet everywhere, which for a buyer is an advantage: it is the piece nobody else on the street has. Lead times on a 2025 family run longer than on an established one, and we give the current figure when we quote.

The curve is mid-century. The structure underneath is not.

Poliform Owen armchair with a curved back, catalog photograph
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Poliform Owen curved seating on a firm base, photograph 1
Poliform Owen curved seating on a firm base, photograph 2
Poliform Owen curved seating on a firm base, photograph 3
Poliform Owen curved seating on a firm base, photograph 4

What is in the Owen family

Poliform Owen: pieces, types and materials as listed by the factory. Every price on request.
PieceTypeMade ofNotes
Poliform Owen sofaSofasFabric or leatherIn the catalog since 2025
Poliform Owen armchairArmchairsFabric or leatherCocooning curve, since 2025
How a Poliform Owen piece is built up, layer by layerCoverfabric or leather, by gradeWrappingfibre over the foamPaddingpolyurethane foam, variable densityShellcurved upholstered bodyBasevisible architectural structuresection
A section through an Owen 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 borrowed the posture of the 1950s and left the decoration behind.

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