Florence Upholstered Ottoman Bench

The Florence — a long upholstered ottoman bench in slubby neutral cotton-blend, finished with vertical channel tufting that runs floor-to-top across its entire length, set on a recessed plinth that lifts the form just above the floor.

The Florence brings something most upholstered benches quietly miss — vertical channel tufting as the entire architectural detail. Soft fluted channels run from floor to top across the full 130cm length of the bench, the upholstery equivalent of classical column flutes, breaking the large surface into rhythmic vertical sections that catch and shadow light differently down every line. The fabric itself is a slubby neutral textured weave in soft warm oatmeal — a cotton-blend with subtle tonal variation across the surface that prevents the bench from reading as a single flat colour, no matter the light it sits in.

What sets it apart

The detail that makes it different

The recessed plinth base is the second design move that lifts the Florence above standard upholstered benches — a plinth set inside the footprint of the bench creates a fine shadow gap at the floor, making the upholstered form appear to float a few millimetres above the surface. Without this recess the bench would read as a heavy block; with it, the form has lift and the silhouette has proportion. The same quiet design vocabulary as the Devon footstool — channel detail and floating plinth — applied here at the scale of a proper end-of-bed bench. Built around a sturdy plywood frame with high-density foam padding and a polyester-acrylic-cotton mix fabric outer, sized at 130 × 48 × 48 cm — long enough to sit comfortably across the foot of a king or superking bed, generous enough to seat two for shoe-tying and dressing-room use.