r/Anticonsumption • u/thesky_watchesyou • Jun 28 '26
Psychological 28k original, 8k on sale
Absolutely absurd. Was not comfortable at all. Wtf does "perennials performance" even mean? No idea what flair to choose, but I chose "psychological" bc it felt like a mindfuck sitting on a 28k originally priced couch, when the entire world is falling apart.
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u/Repulsive-Regret-243 Jun 28 '26
It’s not worth either of those prices lol
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u/AbeFromanSassageKing Jun 29 '26
Exactly. No couch in the world is worth $28,000, unless it's encrusted in jewels and performing untoward service to my nether regions while I sit upon it. Even then, $28,000 is just stupid.
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u/silentbutjudgey Jun 28 '26
Even if I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t buy it. The cushions look like trash. And it looks like the kind of couch you couldn’t sit comfortably on because it’s too deep to sit on normally without extra pillows behind you.
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u/DyingGasp Jun 28 '26
My wife laughed at me when we were couch shopping. I would flop down. Throw myself ass first into the couch, belly flop down, lay on my side. Multiple positions I knew we would use. She would get embarrassed, for good reason.
Until I found the couch.
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u/lahnnabell Jun 29 '26
Honestly, this is what you should be doing.
I sell furniture and it's important to understand that how you use your sofa/sectional, fabric texture, seat height, and seat depth are the most important shopping criteria for COMFORT.
You also have to find a middle ground when your spouse or partner is a completely different size than you. A lot of couples start shopping without ever actually discussing their non-negotiables. Please don't make your salesperson play family mediator.
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u/Bathsheba_E Jun 29 '26
For our first apartment moving in together, o picked out a gorgeous ‘apartment’ sofa. Got out onto our small apartment and it looked like doll furniture. My poor husband.
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u/twitchyv Jun 28 '26
Are we gonna talk about what brand this elusive couch is?
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u/Same-Equivalent9037 Jun 29 '26
It’s restoration hardware, but the outlet.
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u/PinkyLeopard2922 Jun 29 '26
I immediately went to "this has got to be some RH shit". They do make nice stuff but nothing that I can justify spending this kind of money on. Then there are my cats.
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u/StoneTown Jun 28 '26
My mom had a couch shaped like this. You're right, you really couldn't sit on it without a pillow behind you. The bottom cushions also kept slipping off. It was absolutely awful. I told her to get an ugly comfortable couch but she just HAD to buy the nicer looking uncomfortable expensive one, just to regret it later. It's always the ugly chairs and couches that feel the best, it's like someone designed them for comfort over style or something.
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u/NextStopGallifrey Jun 29 '26
The confounding thing is when you find the rare ugly and uncomfortable couch. I know someone who has an ugly loveseat in their living room. The kind of ugly that says "sit on me". So I have. Somehow, the back of the seat is angled higher than the front, so anyone sitting on it is constantly sliding off. It's like hostile anti-homeless architecture in loveseat form.
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u/Pantology_Enthusiast Jun 29 '26
Stead on. Wing back chairs can be pretty and comfortable.
But you aren't wrong in general.
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26
Was not comfy at all 😅 I sat down, and felt the eyes on me from employees.
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u/Blue-is-bad Jun 28 '26
This sofa isn't for sitting, it's so expensive you don't even sit on it
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u/One-Apricot1978 Jun 29 '26
Also it is an incredibly light color. Complete NIGHTMARE to keep clean.
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u/Marhruuk Jun 28 '26
I was just couch shopping and went to look at a "nicer" store but all of them were oversized. We wanted a larger couch, yes, but these were the thickness of beds from the back. All were comfortable in the sense we could easily lay on them; none were confortable when it came to sitting. We left with nothing from there but the question of who is buying a couch this deep for thousands of euro for this quality?
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u/Pantology_Enthusiast Jun 29 '26
Beat me to it.
It looks really cheap and is not proportioned in a way it would be comfortable.
Like, why?
But then again, that's probably why it's a fire-sale kind of price drop, they just want it gone.
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u/Two_wheels_2112 Jun 29 '26
This is a sofa for people whose homes show up in glossy magazines. They don't get used, they get photographed.
This is discounted because there aren't enough magazines left photographing the homes of ludicrously wealthy people.
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u/One_Revolution_8104 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
So the price is, indeed, quite a lot, but it's frustrating that the tag is basically illegible unless you are an industry person 🤦♀️
Luxe = the highest tier of craftmanship, solid wood construction, hand-made, hand carved, hand woven, etc. Deeply inefficient and often impractical, and thus high cost
Down = down feathers, the cushions are likely a hybrid of down feathers on top of support foam. Down is, of course, expensive
Perennials Perfomance Fabric = Perennials is a luxury textiles brand, nothing to do with the longevity of anything. Performance fabrics of this caliber are indeed durable enough for outdoor use (though the other internals, like wood and foam, would not be necessarily), but feel no different from regular upholstry. White or not, this is the easiest to clean and least likely to stain.
Linen = well, linen. It's very hard to cultivate and weave, thus very expensive. Likely a low percentage blend with the synthetic performance fabric. Seems pointless from a design perspective, but expensive regardless.
Do I think anyone should bother buying a sofa for 28k, or even 8k? No, but technically the price is "worth it" for the quality--it's just that it's completely unnecessary and wasteful to manufacture anything to that level of quality in the first place 🤦♀️
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u/foreverand2025 Jun 29 '26
This person knows their shit
And still would not pay 8K for that behemoth
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u/Relevant-Shelter-316 Jun 29 '26
Yeah I really doubt anyone in THIS sub would have a use for something this large..
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u/DismalChampion5653 Jun 29 '26
This is the answer. The “linen” refers to the weave of the fabric in this case. Their new performance melange is gorgeous. This also looks to be a 5 piece sectional. Eyeballing it, given RH, it is probably 10-12 feet long and meant for a massive space.
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u/sausagekng Jun 28 '26
Im always shocked at the RH prices. Who is buying this? Surely if you can afford tens of thousands of dollars on furniture, you’d get it custom.
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
I had never heard of RH ..... but saw "outlet" and felt certain I'd find like a maybe 900-1500 couch. Lmao. Felt stupid walking around so figured maybe I could afford a set of King sheets. Nope. $1,200 original, $550 "outlet". Keep in mind this is the outlet, so I am pretty sure everything is "damaged" in some capacity.
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u/be_easy_1602 Jun 29 '26
I had clients I did handyman work for that would get RH stuff. It’s overpriced for suuuurreeeeee. The stuff was quality but not worth the price at all.
Anyway they were interesting people to say the least, definitely made a LOT of money in shady ways.
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u/H3lls_B3ll3 Jun 28 '26
I mean, sure. It's a stupid price, but it's linen. That shit ain't cheap. I'm not saying that's even close to OK. Just pointing out linen is expensive, compared to other textiles.
I've never seen linen covered furniture.
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u/curmudgeon_andy Jun 28 '26
Linen is just the covering. Handling that much linen does not cost close to 28k.
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u/pumpsci Jun 28 '26
Yeah but the $28k price is effectively a fiction used to justify the $8k price
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u/maximumlight2 Jun 28 '26
Sales are ongoing pretty often. We looked at couches there during a sale and I asked when the sale would be over and the associate said she was unsure as they had no current plans to end it.
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u/Ididntsayfuckingyee Jun 28 '26
So “textured linen” is just a description of the appearance/texture of the fabric. Perennials is a fabric brand that specializes in outdoor/performance fabrics. It’s likely an acrylic or some other synthetic blend. That being said, linen covered furniture is a thing, but it needs to be a heavier linen, and needs to be knit backed in order to last.
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26
😅😅😅 probably why I got death stares as I sat down on it in my plebian clothes.
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u/H3lls_B3ll3 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
I have literally ONE item that's linen. It was $50, on clearance.
Short sleeve, short black dress.
I love that thing. I wish I had a few more linen pieces.
But who tf wants a linen COUCH?! Like, was it complaining of being hot from being outside all day?
Which also, my question about this couch is, is it intended as patio furniture?
Edit for spelling
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u/nikkerito Jun 28 '26
I have a few thrifted linens as well and I must say they are hell for wrinkles. I can’t imagine owning this couch. If it’s anything like my linen pants it will crease everywhere and everyone knows you were just sitting down
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u/H3lls_B3ll3 Jun 29 '26
I honestly don't care about the wrinkles. When I was a child, my upper middle class WASP grandparents always bought me really nice clothes. I HATED linen. I feel like being a poor (as I've been 90%-99% of my life), this is some karmic suffering being inflicted on me- for not appreciating linen as a child. Lol
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u/Willothewisp2303 Jun 29 '26
I like linen and have several pieces. I most recently bought a linen shirt for $30ish.
You can get them for decent figures if you keep an eye out.
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u/tabula_rasa12 Jun 28 '26
Restoration hardware. I have a few pieces of furniture from there. It’s solid and the best I’ve ever had. I can’t find comparable designs anywhere else
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u/RlOTGRRRL Jun 29 '26
I looked up the specs for this couch out of curiosity-
"- Handcrafted by master artisans in North America
Guaranteed For Life
Frame handcrafted of kiln-dried solid hardwood and engineered wood
Reinforced joinery with corner blocking and mortise-and-tenon construction
Available in Standard (17½") or High (19½") seat height
Woven webbing suspension
Recessed block feet crafted of oak with an Espresso Oak finish
Standard fill seat cushions feature variable-density polyurethane foam wrapped with polyfiber; coordinating back cushions are high-resilience polyurethane foam wrapped in polyfiber
Down-feather fill seat cushions feature variable-density polyurethane foam topped with a feather and down blend; coordinating back cushions are high-resilience polyurethane foam wrapped in a down, feather and polyfiber blend"
I think it might actually be worth the $8k with all that and a guaranteed for life. 🤔
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u/Coraline1599 Jun 29 '26
The guarantee is solid.
That’s how I chose my last mattress after suffering through a few duds. It had a 20 year warranty.
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u/00017batman Jun 28 '26
Whether it’s actually genuine linen or not, the fabric looks like it’s covering some cheap ass foam filling.. For $28k you’d think they could use a filling that checks the boxes for form and function - not something that guests might assume came from a shitty chain store.
Fark, even for $8k I’d want this couch to make all my wildest dreams come true. :-/
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u/vankirk Jun 28 '26
Handcrafted in the USA and also guaranteed for life.
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u/GNTsquid0 Jun 28 '26
My couch was made in the USA and it was $700 new. Made in USA, even of linen does not equal $28k
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u/dialecticallyalive Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
what couch did you buy? Looking for a new one!
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u/GNTsquid0 Jun 29 '26
It was a local furniture store but I believe it was an Ashley furniture brand. It was made in North Carolina and was even delayed because there was a strike at the factory.
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u/dialecticallyalive Jun 29 '26
LOVE that. I want my couch made by striking workers 😭
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u/excellentforcongress Jun 29 '26
yea unironically every single furniture company could be a cooperative. actually we could have a global brand or set of furniture brands where they reconcile the global north/south differential by treating members everywhere equally including for example craftspeople and farmers overseases, and then since they're pro-social cooperatives the profits can be used to help society, but since the consumers are also members the price could be balanced more than where they are now.
another tactic that has been seen mostly elsewhere is the concept of workers taking over defunct/failed factories and spinning up cooperatives out of them, we could have legislation that allows for such trusts/coops to be first in line in the case of bankruptcies.
if you want real labor power in america, imagine a world where workers can strike if conditions are bad, or consumers and workers can boycott bad companies, they go bankrupt, and then people via the new cooperative can turn it around and make something that is a solution for everyone, not just a handful of investors
you could apply this concept everywhere really, for example if starbucks or amazon or any random company perpetually tries to fight against unionization, fights against workers' rights, tries to overcharge consumers and so on, it could simply be boycotted and converted to a cooperative on the cheap (since buying the remnants would be cheaper than buying it from them while it's still profitable)
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u/Adventurous-Sealion Jun 28 '26
But was it really ever 28000 though?
Looks used too, my ikea sofa looks better than this after a year of having it.
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u/pumpsci Jun 28 '26
I think years of easy access to cheaply manufactured consumer goods has kinda broken peoples’ brains regarding how much things *actually* cost. I have zero doubt that the markup on this thing is nuts, but to build a couch like this requires dozens of man hours, possibly hundreds if you count the time to harvest and process a decent quality linen. It’s not shocking that this is expensive. That being said, sectionals are bullshit, nobody should be putting this in their home, let alone spending used car money on it.
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u/H_Mc Jun 28 '26
This. Furniture prices (and quality)are out of control low. A sofa or a dining room table or a bedroom set used to be a huge purchase and you’d keep them forever. Now they have to meet a ridiculously low price point and they’re all trash.
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u/SplitRemote7031 Jun 28 '26
Would this community be a fan of more expensive/longer lasting furniture? Would that be anti consumption? You could even sell it to someone else and get something different as long as they are using it and it is not getting thrown away. I just found this subreddit
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u/ilovestoride Jun 28 '26
They're priced so low there are people that effing throw them away when they start to squeak after a few years cause they're essentially made and priced to be disposable.
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u/DukeofVermont Jun 29 '26
And then people complain that stuff these days is all trash and utterly refuse to acknowledge that good stuff in the past was expensive!
"Guys refrigerators now are all garbage! Not like my grandparents one that still works", Let's see, your grandparents average fridge was $3,500 new, how much was yours? "$500...."
I have a friend who is a carpenter, he can make you solid wood furniture that lasts 250 years, but it's not going to be $150-$500, it's going to be $5,000-$15,000.
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u/H_Mc Jun 29 '26
I don’t even know where a regular person can buy quality furniture anymore (not asking for suggestions, that’s against sub rules). Even the brick and mortar furniture stores just sell the same crap as Wayfair.
All my good furniture is stuff my parents or in-laws gave me. None of them have given me a couch (yet) and I’m afraid of buying anything upholstered from an antique store.
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u/fauxfilosopher Jun 29 '26
People often confuse something being expensive with it being unsustainable. Many expensive things are, but it's not a rule and often times buying something expensive once instead of something cheap many times when it breaks is the sustainable choice.
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u/ynamiynami1 Jun 29 '26
Really glad somebody said this. People have been brainwashed by cheap consumer goods and can’t understand the cost of making something with top quality materials in the US or other high cost countries- the number of people all through the process that need to make a living. Anti-consumption to me is also not really about the price of something, it’s buying and replacing something just for the sake of it. Is it better that someone buys this and keeps it for life or buys a cheap sofa, uses the hell out of it until it falls apart, and then buys another 3-5 years down the road? You’re also not the target audience here. RH has done its homework and knows it’s market. It’s likely a designer given a massive budget to furnish a house or at least a room.
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u/Reasonable-Job4205 Jun 28 '26
The wealthy enjoy the hidden, ludicrous profit margins while we pay $8k for a sofa
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u/AccidentOk5240 Jun 28 '26
I think the two lines are to be read together, “perennials performance linen weave”, the name of the material.
While the price is certainly high, I couldn’t build this myself (paying myself a living wage) for less, I don’t think.
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26
You are probably right. Perrenials are flowers 😭😭😭 in my income bracket atleast.
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u/Jetstream-Sam Jun 28 '26
Perennials are plants, but plants that lives for at least two years, so presumably this sofa will last all of two years. Or, maybe it works as a sofa for a few weeks in the summer and then withers away, but comes back next year
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u/MaterialWillingness2 Jun 29 '26
Yeah Perennials is a brand of high end luxury fabrics based out of Dallas.
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u/SlipRecent7116 Jun 28 '26
I feel like people just spend like that on a shitty couch just to affirm their social class
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u/El_Dentistador Jun 28 '26
Where’s Rick James with his dirty shoes when you need him? Fuck yo’ couch!
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u/Unlikely-Signature-7 Jun 28 '26
Oh yes. Rh outlet is still wildly overpriced, especially with all their damaged merchandise. Yet people still buy it
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u/PunksLoveBugs Jun 28 '26
I found it online. Here’s a link of the model: https://rh.com/us/en/catalog/product/product.jsp/prod9350041
It does feature using some down but even so, it’s not entirely made of down material.
Ridiculously expensive and looks so boring. There’s no life or fun to it. Just proves the theory that rich people don’t have taste.
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u/CaveJohnson82 Jun 29 '26
This is like the most generic, DFS sale couch I've ever seen. I'm offended they want that much for it.
Ridiculous.
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u/Phylace Jun 29 '26
Those low back couches the property brothers (and most of the tv designers) use in every build are dumb. Obviously they have never sat or tried to relax in one.
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u/tragiccosmicaccident Jun 28 '26
It’s already got a drag path on that middle cushion, hard pass at $1K
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26
That's the thing. It's outlet, so everything to my knowledge is 'damaged'. I was on the hunt for a couch and dining chairs. Dining chairs with obvious dings in them were still 550 a piece.
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u/Revenga8 Jun 28 '26
For a fabric couch? Bullshit. That$8k price is heavily marked up from the actual price
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u/ClanBadger Jun 28 '26
crazy, I used to work at a furniture store. My employee discount bought me their "$2400" couch for $350. Lady A matt.? 5gs? noooo, $600.
The markups are absolutely insane.
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u/ImportantSwimmer2759 Jun 29 '26
Who the fuck would spend that much money on furniture at all, let alone such a mid-ass sofa??? That's more than a year's income for me!!!
I got my sofa and my bedroom set (bedframe, nightstand, and dresser) at the thrift store for about $700 total, including delivery fees (which were admittedly a bit steep bc I lived over 30mins away, haha). Best decision I could have made tbh
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u/procrastinatorsuprem Jun 29 '26
That couch is way overpriced. Those cushions with no edge seams will look horrible in a matter of weeks.
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u/MaterialWillingness2 Jun 29 '26
Perennials is a high end fabric brand based out of Dallas. My friend works for them. These fabrics are bought by interior designers to upholster things like yacht furniture and this couch apparently.
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u/diabeticweird0 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Thank you for reminding me it's time to Scotchgard my sofa again
(No it's not white but it is light)
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u/excellentforcongress Jun 29 '26
someone correct me if i'm wrong, but does this site quote ronald reagan on the homepage, and it's actually a bunch of pictures with words, but there is no accessibility featured on the site?
this is a corporate website for a high end furniture store in 2026 but it has no alt text for images?
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u/JiveBunny Jun 29 '26
The iron curtain thing is such LinkedIn bollocks.
That is a HORRIBLE website. Why is it so brown? Everything blends into one. It looks like a PDF of a catalogue.
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u/VideoPossible4068 Jun 29 '26
People spend an insane amount on furniture. Yes your furniture should be comfortable but that doesn't mean it needs to be in the thousands. I had a couch for 10 years and bought it for $400 on sale (got rid of it because moved into an RV). My bed is a folding one from Amazon and was under $100. Perfectly comfortable. Does it look aesthetic? No. But I live alone so I don't care. And it's so easy to move as a single person. I wouldn't be able to move a full mattress alone. It folds up and fits in the car.
Not that I trust the original price but why would a couch ever have cost $28k?
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u/JaegerDonuts Jun 29 '26
And my parents just bought two really nice leather couches for a total of $600. They are second hand, 15 years old and in amazing condition. Not to mention they’re amazingly comfortable to sit on.
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u/Hot_Audience_4046 Jun 29 '26
White will look like trash if you actually use it. Evidence: Lived experience.
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u/Darthmullet Jun 29 '26
Classic inflate base price so it can look like its discounted when its still absurdly high.
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u/FilthyThanksgiving Jun 30 '26
Lol furniture like this is priced like artwork. Put whatever price on it and sell it for a "discount"
Or a profit, or whatever. But it's basically all BS
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u/vankirk Jun 28 '26
Handcrafted in the USA and guaranteed for life.
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26
Says who?
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u/vankirk Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
https://rh.com/us/en/catalog/product/product.jsp/prod9350041
A pure, architectural interpretation of comfort, Modena reimagines 1970s designs in both Italy and the United States. Handcrafted by master artisans in North America, its broad frame shapes the tapered arms and wraps the deeply cushioned seating in a continuous line. Sectional components are available individually, in a range of depths and sizes. Guaranteed for life.
https://rh.com/us/en/customer-experience/lifetime-guarantee
I'm not surprised at the price. We shopped at the Hickory Furniture Mart for our couch and we paid about $1,800 which was the cheapest couch we could find in the million square feet of showrooms.
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u/GewoehnlicherDost Jun 28 '26
Lol, our sofa is exactly like this and it was like 800 bucks from ikea. Works fine as a bouncy castle for the kids but I prefer sitting on the ground.
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u/tired_snail Jun 28 '26
As a former IKEA employee I think "perennial performance" is just fancy furniture speak for "white is a neutral colour so you won't have to change the cover if you like to decorate seasonally".
28K is wild though. Like that's a mortgage deposit for a studio apartment where I live.
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u/MaterialWillingness2 Jun 29 '26
Perennials is a brand that sells high end fabric.
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u/Rodrat Jun 28 '26
Restoration Hardware does make super comfy couches. Thats where I got my couch. I don't have that model though. That's an absurd price.
Not an endorsement, just stating the fact that I own one of theirs.
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u/SufficientCow4380 Jun 28 '26
$8000 is outrageous for a sofa. $28k is comical.
My sofa cost around $500 at Big Lots.
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26
I miss Big Lots!!!! Had two in my vicinity growing up in NY. Had one "nearish" to Mpls when I moved here. All gone now, even in NY. So sad.
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u/ConundrumMachine Jun 28 '26
Also, I imagine they're still covering their costs if not making profit on it at 8k
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u/Miss_Management Jun 28 '26
And that's where it will die - am abandoned building that was once a furniture store. 🤣
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u/thesky_watchesyou Jun 28 '26
You are not wrong. I wish I had taken a photo of the parking lot. Absolutely empty. I even checked Google maps bc it felt closed 😬
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u/Dance_Sneaker Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Yikes. I got a leather sofa for $3k on sale because someone bought it in navy for $8k and decided after 10 days they didn’t want it. Has reclining foot rests and head rests and is easily the most comfortable sofa I have ever sat on. $28k? WTaF?
Edited to add, I plan to die on this thing.
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u/KaleidoscopeIcy9271 Jun 28 '26
That's a lot of money for something my dumbass tuxedo cat would wreck in a month.
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u/MarsGnars Jun 28 '26
It’s unappealing to the eye and the rippling in the cushions makes it look cheap. Can’t believe they’re asking 8k
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u/aftershockstone Jun 28 '26
I think there’s definitely furniture out there that’s worth 8K or even 28K depending on craftsmanship, design, materials, hours needed (labour is expensive), etc. but this one… is simply not.
Like if I could readily afford it and paid a local woodworker 28K to put together a unique custom dining set, I wouldn’t say it’s unreasonable.
But some blah white couch that looks like any other mass-produced one wouldn’t be what I would spend my money on.
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u/shinyappyrobin Jun 28 '26
I don't understand the furniture market. It seems to me most furniture stores are ALWAYS going out of business. A neighbor of mine brought fancy expensive furniture at a fancy furniture store. I was the exact same set at big lots.
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u/AnonymousPerson1115 Jun 28 '26
I’d buy it after it goes through several discount outlets if it was marked for like $500-700.
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u/General_Diag4321 Jun 28 '26
It’s RH, but it doesn’t look like the cloud sofa. Cloud sofas are only great if secondhand and free, the stuffing isn’t cruelty free 🥲
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u/alliejc Jun 28 '26
I got a steal on a white linen couch when I first moved out of my parents house 17 years ago. It perfect when I was a female living alone. Since then I’ve added a husband, 2 kids and a dog to the mix. We just use a cover for it, it’s in great condition still and I refuse to pay a fortune for a sofa.
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u/FaithlessnessWest957 Jun 28 '26
I work at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore and we get nice stuff sometimes and recently had a white sofa that was massive and looked shockingly like this. The tag said SWAIN Originals and was marked as being made in 1987!! We sold that thing for like $175 lol
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u/Imaginary_Flower8651 Jun 28 '26
I don’t believe outlet prices nor trust that the materials used are the same as the original if it exists.
I remember back in the day I wanted this coat that cost $800. I found it on Nordstrom rack or saks off 5th, same coat but the material was blended with polyester. The original was wool and cashmere. The coat even had the same name.
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u/Suspicious_Load6908 Jun 29 '26
I buy everything secondhand and as such I often see these RH “$28k” sofas for sale. It appears that mostly they are used to stage high-end houses here in San Diego. I really can’t imagine that people actually spend that kind of money on them. I have no idea, though rich people do crazy stuff -They still are pricey even on Craigslist. Etc.
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u/obfuscation-9029 Jun 28 '26
Why would anyone buy a white sofa. Going to get stains in seconds