Sofa beds are the quintessential piece of space-saving furniture for urban homes – being capable of seating as well as providing adequate horizontal space for lying supine and sleeping with just a few simple motions. If your home requires the kind of space savings that only the sofa bed can provide – or if you simply want the option of a stowable bed for guests to crash on, take a gander at our top five picks of sofa beds in the country.
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From HipVan – a local provider of designer-quality furniture with affordable price tags, and the artful Swedish township of Malmö, comes a wall-hugging daybed that evolved out of mid-20th century Scandinavian designs, re-imagined with the straight lines of modern aesthetics. The solid wood frame holds a thick, fabric-covered base that is raised up on white oak dowel legs, with side panels that can be fixed onto any side to enable a wide variety of placements in compact spaces. The fabric upholstery is available in two feminine shades: pink or purple, to stand out against a neutral-coloured background.
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The ultimate space-saving design of sofa beds is manifested in the Duo from the Mocof – the self-described “specializts” in “spaze”. The unassumingly contemporary appearance of the Duo five-seater sofa in its default state belies an origami of steel construction in the array of ingenious mechanisms that unfold to form a bunk bed – complete with a ladder and rail that neatly folds into the steel-framed structure. The Duo is upholstered with high-performance fabrics from Sunbrella®, enabling a choice of colour and motif from an extensive catalogue.
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The Every One Sofa Bed from Linds Furniture’s Desiree series is a modern variety of sofa, designed in part by the Italian architect Roberto Gobbo (of the Euromobil design group). Featuring an electro-welded steel frame for the bed base and deep spring seating that guarantees no sagging in the seats for up to 10 years, this piece of furniture is likely to outlast many others. The Every One’s simplistic design and replaceable fabric or leather upholstery covers enable it to fit into a wide variety of interiors.
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Bo Concept, a brand that embodies premier Scandinavian furniture in the modern age, provides us with the Melo 2 – a new take on the BR39 Spectrum designed by Martin Visser and Dick van der Net in the 1960s. While retaining the iconic flip-out design and narrow arm rests of the rare original, this modern interpretation features splayed aluminum legs of minimalist design in addition to upholstery fabric covers that are available in three different compositions and shades of grey for the discerning homeowner to choose from.
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This familiar-looking sofa bed comes from the United States’ largest mattress manufacturer – Serta®, with its ancestry rooted in the very first iterations of the iconic Spectrum sofa bed designed by Martin Visser in the 1950s. The pictured Shelby retains the original design that entails a single-motion to convert it into a sofa bed (or a day bed), in addition to square pipe legs re-imagined in obtuse angles and with a reflective sheen to complement the polished metals of modern interiors.
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