If You Love Modular Furniture, You’re Going To Love The Marshmallow Furniture Trend
Forget subtle… outsized furniture is taking centre stage in 2025. Imagine sinking into cocooning marshmallow beds that promise your best night’s sleep ever, cosying up on plump love seats built for two, or transforming your living room with substantial sofas that exude a cool, modern modular vibe. Here’s how to make 2025’s marshmallow furniture trend work for you…
Bigger is most certainly better with this interiors trend, as your humble sofa, bed, coffee table, and more get the chubby treatment for SS25.
The aesthetic, while playfully cartoonish, is still undeniably chic when paired with the right design details and sophisticated colour palettes, not to mention incredibly Instagrammable. And though size isn’t everything, it certainly amplifies the comfort factor. Who wouldn’t want to melt into a generously plump sofa at the end of a long day?
The trend also bridges the gap between retro cool and modern minimalism. Take a modular sofa, for instance: its low, squishy profile and bulbous curves might evoke that 1960s Mad Men vibe, but in a contemporary setting, it feels incredibly modern and pared back. Look to Dusk’s Manhattan stone-coloured collection or Swyft’s 03 olive green sofa for something rich and inviting.
Who wouldn’t want to melt into a generously plump sofa at the end of a long day?
If colour and print are more your thing, this trend isn’t just about clean lines. It’s also embracing a more playful, eclectic aesthetic. Take Buchanan Studio’s iconic Studio Chair in white and rose stripes – a big investment but a huge impact in your favourite nook of the house. Or, Made x Harlequin’s matcha green geometric print sofa has comfort and cool covered – so good against retro rusty shades and rich walnut wood.
Then, on the other end of the spectrum, we have furniture that goes full marshmallow mode. Case in point: Sofa & Friends’ aptly named Marshmallow Man sofa. Available in timeless shades of white, black, and mink, its generously chubby, modular design is quite literally made for sinking into. In fact, it would be criminal not to recline on this sofa, making cosy nights in undoubtedly far more tempting than any big night out.
Buchanan Studio’s iconic love seat will transform your favourite nook.
If you’re style errs more on the side of traditional, than modern marshmallow, a plump sofa to sink into works really well in a classic deckchair stripe.
There’s something about pink interiors that we’re always drawn to and the colour works particularly well in plump, marshmallow-shaped pieces.
A chubby modular sofa finds the sweet spot between retro cool and statement-making modernism.
A cocooning bubble-esque bed will help you get those 8 hours… and make a focus feature in the bedroom.
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