Classic Sofas

Thirty-seven to thirty-nine inches deep. The hybrid. The depth designers reach for when a client wants one sofa that does two jobs — upright enough for a dinner party conversation, deep enough to stretch out on a Sunday afternoon without a second piece to do the lounging for it.

A Classic is the specification for a living room that has to work for both registers of a life. A reader whose home hosts dinner parties but also has Netflix on a weekday night should look here first. The Call Standard applies the same ten categories to every Classic reviewed — frame, suspension, fabric durability, seat height, seat depth, cushion fill, customization, value, sustainability, and design — with the score benchmarked against the best engineering possible at the sofa's price.