For most of the last decade, the expensive-looking room followed a formula: pale oak, a cream sofa, a low stone-effect table, a paper lantern and a great deal of beige. It photographed well. Eventually it looked the same in every city.
That formula is coming apart. When 1stDibs surveyed hundreds of interior designers across 17 countries for its 2026 forecast, chocolate brown led the color predictions at 33 percent, burgundy had tripled since 2022, and tan had lost two thirds of its support since 2023. Homes & Gardens summed up the new mood as "collected, not curated." Livingetc reported that brown leather is back on sofas. There is no single new look. What has changed is what people expect furniture to do: carry visual weight, show the hand that made it, and hold a room on its own.
Below are seven ideas shaping interiors right now. The 15 pieces are not a shopping list. They are the clearest examples we found, across seven makers in the Matho Home catalog, of each idea at its best.
What furniture is trending in 2026?
Short answer: In 2026 the move is toward sculptural, softly curved seating, natural stone tables with real mass, and chandeliers treated as art. Deeper wood tones, burl, lacquer and saturated color are also back. Rooms are mixed and collected rather than bought as matching sets, and warm browns, burgundy and blues are replacing all-beige palettes.
The rest of this piece walks through each idea, one piece of furniture at a time.
1. Sofas Are Becoming Architecture
What sofas are interior designers using in 2026? Designers are choosing sofas with a strong, drawn outline: generous curves, channeled or segmented backs, and sizes that shape the room instead of lining a wall. Tailored velvet and textured weaves are replacing the plain slubby cream box. The sofa is increasingly the first piece chosen, and the room is planned around it.
"Sofas are generous and curved, tables feel weighty," Vinterior's Sophie Salata told Homes & Gardens in January. The point is outline. A sofa that reads as a shape from across the room does the work a wall of art used to do.
Beige Channeled Curved Sofa Alison · Eichholtz
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Why it matters: It is 130 inches wide with an asymmetrical sweep and deep channeling in Creststone Beige. It does not sit in the room so much as draw a line through it. The color stays neutral, but the shape is anything but.
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Where it works: Open-plan living rooms, or any space big enough to float a sofa away from the walls.
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Pair it with: The low, organic Isernia travertine coffee table and a large wool rug from our rug collection, so the curve has room to breathe.
Shop the Alison sofa →
Chrysalis Sofa in Rouge · Caracole
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Why it matters: Rouge luxe velvet over segmented curves, framed with walnut panels. It is 90 inches wide, which makes it a real sofa rather than a showpiece. It speaks to two findings at once: burgundy's rise in the 1stDibs survey and Homes & Gardens' call for richer wood tones.
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Where it works: A living room or library that can take one confident color, or a primary bedroom with space for a proper sofa.
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Pair it with: The swirling grain of the Arcadia burl chair and the hand-carved Tabwa coffee table. The walnut, burl and carved wood tie the room together without anything matching.
Shop the Chrysalis sofa →
Browse the full range of sofas and sectionals.
2. Curves Without the Bouclé Cliché
Are curved sofas still in style? Yes. Curved furniture is still one of the most-cited trends among designers: 43 percent in the 1stDibs 2026 survey, down slightly from 48 percent the year before. What is changing is the fabric. The rounded silhouette is staying, and the default cream bouclé is giving way to chenille, velvet and color.
Is bouclé furniture still popular? Bouclé has not disappeared, but it is no longer the headline. In a May 2026 Livingetc survey of designers, the consensus was to use it on one piece, ideally in a color, and to layer it with linen, velvet, mohair, wood and stone rather than cover the room in it.
Arezza 115" Stone White Basketweave Chenille Modular Sofa · TOV Furniture
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Why it matters: It has the softly rounded profile people loved in bouclé, rendered in a contract-grade basketweave chenille. That texture reads as tailored rather than teddy bear. It is modular and 115 inches across, and it is proof that the look does not require a five-figure budget.
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Where it works: Family rooms, media rooms and anywhere that sees daily use.
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Pair it with: A shot of color, like the lacquered Joy side table in Dark Slate Green and the ochre Jagger swivel chair.
Shop the Arezza sofa →
Jagger Swivel Chair in Ochre · Caracole
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Why it matters: A rounded sculptural body in ochre vintage velvet, 38 inches square, on a swivel. It is the curve trend in its most useful form: a chair that turns toward the conversation, in a color that would have seemed daring five years ago.
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Where it works: A living room corner, a reading nook, or the foot of a bed.
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Pair it with: A pale sofa like the Arezza, where it becomes the room's one bright note.
Shop the Jagger chair →
More shapes live in our accent chairs collection.
3. The New Stone Age
Is travertine furniture still in style? Yes. Travertine has moved from trend to staple, and the most interesting pieces now use it in solid, sculptural forms rather than thin veneers. Its warm, porous surface suits the move toward organic modernism, one of the top styles in the 1stDibs 2026 survey. Buy it for the object itself, not the moment.
What coffee tables are designers using? Designers are choosing low, heavy coffee tables with a strong material story: solid travertine and marble, hand-carved wood, and organic or pebble shapes. The thin glass-and-metal table is giving way to pieces that look carved from one block. Weight is the new signal of quality.
The appeal is in the imperfection. Travertine's pits and banding mean no two tops are alike, and it pairs easily with both warm woods and saturated color. For a deeper look at how each stone behaves, see our Natural Stone Edit.
Organic-Shaped Coffee Table Isernia · Eichholtz
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Why it matters: A contoured travertine top on cylindrical legs, only 13 inches high and 184 pounds. It sits low and heavy, closer to a sculpture on the floor than a table. The freeform outline softens a room full of straight lines.
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Where it works: In front of a curved or modular sofa in the living room.
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Pair it with: The Alison sofa. The two outlines echo each other without matching.
Shop the Isernia table →
Round Travertine Dining Table Florence · Eichholtz
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Why it matters: Part of the Met x Eichholtz collaboration. Its form draws on a 12th-century column shaft from The Met Cloisters' Cuxa Cloister in New York. It is 59 inches across in natural travertine, and each table carries its own color and texture. There are few dining tables with a better story to tell at dinner.
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Where it works: A dining room for four to six, or a breakfast room that deserves more than a pedestal table.
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Pair it with: The ebonized ash Acropolis dining chair, with the Duboce alabaster chandelier overhead for stone above and below.
Shop the Florence table →
See all coffee tables and side tables.
4. Dining Tables Are Getting Heavier and More Sculptural
The dining table has become the most architectural piece in the house. Bases are carved, bent and interlocked. Tops are thicker. The chairs around them no longer have to come from the same family, and designers increasingly mix two chair styles at one table.
79" Varnished Oak Bok Dining Table · Ethnicraft
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Why it matters: Alain van Havre shaped the Bok base after curved horns, so the legs arc out from under solid oak. From the side it looks almost weightless. It seats up to eight, and the design has become one of Ethnicraft's signatures.
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Where it works: A family dining room, or a kitchen-dining space where the table is also the desk.
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Pair it with: PI dining chairs along the sides and two upholstered Acropolis chairs at the ends. It is the easiest way to make a table look designed rather than bought.
Shop the Bok table →
Acropolis Dining Chair · Jonathan Adler
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Why it matters: A 40-inch button-accented back that curves at the top, on ebonized ash legs in Lucerne Oyster linen. It has neoclassical bones and a modern outline. It gives a dining room height, which most chairs do not.
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Where it works: Around a stone or wood dining table, at a desk, or as a pair flanking a console.
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Pair it with: The Florence travertine table. Dark wood and linen against pale stone never looks accidental.
Shop the Acropolis chair →
PI Dining Chair · Ethnicraft
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Why it matters: Its "polished imperfect" finish is applied by hand to respect the individual character of the wood. You can see and feel that handwork, and it is exactly what mass-produced chairs lack.
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Where it works: Everyday dining, where a chair has to earn its place three times a day.
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Pair it with: The Bok table, or set it against the Florence travertine table for a wood-and-stone contrast.
Shop the PI chair →
Explore dining tables and dining chairs.
5. Lighting Is Becoming the Art
The chandelier has taken over from the painting as the thing guests look at first. The 1stDibs survey flagged Murano glass pendants as a strong designer favorite for 2026. More broadly, fixtures are being chosen as sculpture: natural materials, adjustable compositions and scale that fills the volume of a room.
Alabaster Blocks Chandelier Duboce · Eichholtz
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Why it matters: Alabaster blocks hang on wires you adjust one at a time in an antique brass frame, so you set the composition yourself. At 71 inches tall, it reads more like an installation than a fixture. Alabaster also gives off a warm, diffused glow that flatters stone and skin alike.
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Where it works: Over a round dining table, in a double-height entry, or in a stairwell.
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Pair it with: The Florence travertine table.
Shop the Duboce chandelier →
Vintage Brass Corda Chandelier 118" · Corbett Lighting
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Why it matters: Matte cloud-glass spheres hang from vintage brass chains like layered pearl necklaces, and the fixture spans 118 inches. The hanging height adjusts from 19 to 42 inches, and it works on sloped ceilings. It is jewelry at room scale.
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Where it works: A long living room, a great room, or over a long dining table or kitchen island.
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Pair it with: A curved sofa like the Alison beneath it. The swag of the chains repeats the sweep of the seat.
Shop the Corda chandelier →
See every chandelier, or the full lighting collection.
6. The Return of Character
What furniture is replacing minimalism? Expressive, collected furniture is replacing strict minimalism: carved and burl woods, decorative edges, bold prints, lacquer, and pieces that look found rather than bought as a set. The 1stDibs 2026 survey found 39 percent of designers expect maximalism to stay popular, with eclecticism and organic modernism close behind. The new restraint is one strong object per room, not an empty one.
This is the most personal of the seven ideas. Character comes from grain, carving and craft, and from shapes that make people smile. These three pieces would be memorable in any room.
Light Brown Burl Chair Arcadia · Eichholtz
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Why it matters: Mappa burl veneer wraps the frame, so the swirling grain does the decorating. The seat is soft natural upholstery. It is 22 inches wide, small enough to tuck in almost anywhere, and it brings the rich-wood trend Homes & Gardens identified into an accent chair.
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Where it works: A bedroom corner, a dressing room, or beside a console in an entry.
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Pair it with: The Chrysalis sofa in rouge. Burl and walnut against red velvet is a very 2026 combination.
Shop the Arcadia chair →
Tabwa Coffee Table · Ethnicraft
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Why it matters: Artisans carve every top by hand with linear geometric motifs drawn from the Tabwa culture of Central Africa, so no two are the same. It is 67 inches long and 14.5 inches high, a wide, low field of pattern you want to run your hand across.
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Where it works: A large living room, in front of a generous sofa or a pair of facing sofas.
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Pair it with: The Chrysalis or Alison sofa. Stone accessories on top keep the carving the hero. If you like Ethnicraft's craft story, read about the Morpho collection we carry.
Shop the Tabwa table →
The statement piece: Serpentine Chaise · Jonathan Adler
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Why it matters: A thick, tube-shaped chaise that curls back on itself, 61 inches long, in textural woven bouclé. This is how bouclé still works in 2026: on one piece whose shape is so strong the fabric becomes secondary. It is witty, comfortable and impossible to ignore.
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Where it works: A living room corner, a bedroom window, or doubled up to flank a fireplace.
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Pair it with: Clean-lined surroundings and the Duboce chandelier, or a lacquered side table in color.
Shop the Serpentine chaise →
7. The End of the Perfectly Matched Room
What colors are replacing all-beige interiors? Warm, saturated colors are replacing all-beige rooms: chocolate brown, burgundy, cornflower blue and pistachio led the 1stDibs 2026 designer survey, while tan fell sharply. You do not need to repaint to join in. A velvet sofa, a lacquered table or an ochre chair against warm neutrals does most of the work.
What furniture makes a home look expensive? Materials with visible depth make a home look expensive: solid stone, real wood grain and burl, velvet, and lacquer. So do a few pieces with strong outlines and proper scale. Mixing makers, eras and textures reads as considered, while a matching set from one collection reads as bought in a single afternoon.
Homes & Gardens called it "collected, not curated," and it is the idea that holds the other six together. The fastest way in is a small, saturated object, and high-gloss lacquer is one of the forms designers named for 2026.
Joy Side Table · Whiteline Modern Living
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Why it matters: A round lacquered side table, 14 inches across and 18 inches high, offered in a glossy Dark Slate Green. It brings the lacquer trend into a room for a few hundred dollars, and it is the kind of small move that makes a neutral room look intentional.
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Where it works: Beside a sofa, a lounge chair or a bed.
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Pair it with: The stone-white Arezza sofa and the ochre Jagger chair. Green, ochre and chalk make a palette that is warm without being beige.
Shop the Joy side table →
How do you mix without chaos? Keep one element constant, such as a wood tone, a metal or a color family, and let everything else vary. We cover more of these principles in 5 Interior Design Rules That Will Transform Your Space and The Art of the Living Room.
The common thread across all 15 pieces is that each one comes from a different design conversation, and they still sit well together. That is the real 2026 skill: editing across makers. Eichholtz, Caracole, Ethnicraft, Jonathan Adler, TOV, Whiteline and Corbett are all under one roof, in stock in the US, and a Matho designer can help you put them together through a design consultation. Or start with what just landed in New Arrivals.
The Matho Edit: 15 Pieces to Know
FAQ: What Designers Are Buying in 2026
What furniture is trending in 2026?
Sculptural, softly curved seating, natural stone tables with real weight, and chandeliers chosen as art lead 2026. Richer wood tones, burl, lacquer and decorative edges like fringe and piping are also rising. Rooms are being collected from several makers rather than bought as matching sets.
What sofas are interior designers using in 2026?
Designers favor sofas with a strong outline: curved, channeled or segmented backs, generous proportions, and upholstery in velvet, chenille or leather rather than plain cream. Skirted sofas are returning too, cited by 24 percent of designers in the 1stDibs 2026 survey.
Are curved sofas still in style?
Yes. Curved furniture remained one of the top designer picks in the 1stDibs 2026 survey at 43 percent. The shape is staying. What is changing is the fabric, with velvet, chenille and color taking over from all-cream bouclé.
Is bouclé furniture still popular?
Bouclé is still used, but no longer as the defining look. Designers now recommend it on one strongly shaped piece, ideally in a color, layered with linen, velvet, mohair, wood and stone rather than repeated across a room.
Is travertine furniture still in style?
Yes. Travertine has settled in as a long-term material rather than a passing trend, especially in solid, sculptural coffee tables, dining tables and side tables. Its natural variation means each piece is unique, which fits the 2026 preference for pieces with character.
What coffee tables are designers using?
Low, heavy coffee tables with a clear material story: solid travertine or marble, hand-carved wood, and organic or pebble shapes. They are replacing thin glass-and-metal tables because they anchor a seating group and read as quality from across the room.
What colors are replacing all-beige interiors?
Chocolate brown, burgundy, cornflower blue and pistachio led the 1stDibs 2026 designer survey, while tan fell sharply. The easy way in is one saturated upholstered piece or a lacquered table set against warm neutrals.
What furniture makes a home look expensive?
Materials with visible depth, such as solid stone, real wood grain and burl, velvet and lacquer, combined with a few pieces of strong shape and proper scale. Mixing makers and eras also looks more considered than a single matching collection.
What are the best luxury furniture brands?
The best brand depends on the job. Names designers rely on include Eichholtz for statement lighting, stone and museum-inspired pieces, Caracole for tailored upholstery, Ethnicraft for solid-wood craft, Jonathan Adler for character pieces, and Corbett Lighting and Hudson Valley Lighting for chandeliers. Matho Home carries all of them, with US delivery.
What furniture is worth investing in?
Spend most on the pieces you use every day and see from every angle: the sofa, the dining table and one statement light. Solid stone and solid wood age well and are hard to fake. Save on accents like side tables and objects, which are also the easiest pieces to change as trends move.
Sources: 1stDibs 2026 Interior Design Trends survey (November 2025); Homes & Gardens, 6 Furniture Trends for 2026 (January 2026); Livingetc, Sofa Trends 2026 (December 2025); Livingetc, Is Bouclé Outdated in 2026? (May 2026).
The 2026 Furniture Edit: 15 Pieces Designers Are Actually Buying
For most of the last decade, the expensive-looking room followed a formula: pale oak, a cream sofa, a low stone-effect table, a paper lantern and a great deal of beige. It photographed well. Eventually it looked the same in every city.
That formula is coming apart. When 1stDibs surveyed hundreds of interior designers across 17 countries for its 2026 forecast, chocolate brown led the color predictions at 33 percent, burgundy had tripled since 2022, and tan had lost two thirds of its support since 2023. Homes & Gardens summed up the new mood as "collected, not curated." Livingetc reported that brown leather is back on sofas. There is no single new look. What has changed is what people expect furniture to do: carry visual weight, show the hand that made it, and hold a room on its own.
Below are seven ideas shaping interiors right now. The 15 pieces are not a shopping list. They are the clearest examples we found, across seven makers in the Matho Home catalog, of each idea at its best.
What furniture is trending in 2026?
Short answer: In 2026 the move is toward sculptural, softly curved seating, natural stone tables with real mass, and chandeliers treated as art. Deeper wood tones, burl, lacquer and saturated color are also back. Rooms are mixed and collected rather than bought as matching sets, and warm browns, burgundy and blues are replacing all-beige palettes.
The rest of this piece walks through each idea, one piece of furniture at a time.
1. Sofas Are Becoming Architecture
What sofas are interior designers using in 2026? Designers are choosing sofas with a strong, drawn outline: generous curves, channeled or segmented backs, and sizes that shape the room instead of lining a wall. Tailored velvet and textured weaves are replacing the plain slubby cream box. The sofa is increasingly the first piece chosen, and the room is planned around it.
"Sofas are generous and curved, tables feel weighty," Vinterior's Sophie Salata told Homes & Gardens in January. The point is outline. A sofa that reads as a shape from across the room does the work a wall of art used to do.
Beige Channeled Curved Sofa Alison · Eichholtz
Shop the Alison sofa →
Chrysalis Sofa in Rouge · Caracole
Shop the Chrysalis sofa →
Browse the full range of sofas and sectionals.
2. Curves Without the Bouclé Cliché
Are curved sofas still in style? Yes. Curved furniture is still one of the most-cited trends among designers: 43 percent in the 1stDibs 2026 survey, down slightly from 48 percent the year before. What is changing is the fabric. The rounded silhouette is staying, and the default cream bouclé is giving way to chenille, velvet and color.
Is bouclé furniture still popular? Bouclé has not disappeared, but it is no longer the headline. In a May 2026 Livingetc survey of designers, the consensus was to use it on one piece, ideally in a color, and to layer it with linen, velvet, mohair, wood and stone rather than cover the room in it.
Arezza 115" Stone White Basketweave Chenille Modular Sofa · TOV Furniture
Shop the Arezza sofa →
Jagger Swivel Chair in Ochre · Caracole
Shop the Jagger chair →
More shapes live in our accent chairs collection.
3. The New Stone Age
Is travertine furniture still in style? Yes. Travertine has moved from trend to staple, and the most interesting pieces now use it in solid, sculptural forms rather than thin veneers. Its warm, porous surface suits the move toward organic modernism, one of the top styles in the 1stDibs 2026 survey. Buy it for the object itself, not the moment.
What coffee tables are designers using? Designers are choosing low, heavy coffee tables with a strong material story: solid travertine and marble, hand-carved wood, and organic or pebble shapes. The thin glass-and-metal table is giving way to pieces that look carved from one block. Weight is the new signal of quality.
The appeal is in the imperfection. Travertine's pits and banding mean no two tops are alike, and it pairs easily with both warm woods and saturated color. For a deeper look at how each stone behaves, see our Natural Stone Edit.
Organic-Shaped Coffee Table Isernia · Eichholtz
Shop the Isernia table →
Round Travertine Dining Table Florence · Eichholtz
Shop the Florence table →
See all coffee tables and side tables.
4. Dining Tables Are Getting Heavier and More Sculptural
The dining table has become the most architectural piece in the house. Bases are carved, bent and interlocked. Tops are thicker. The chairs around them no longer have to come from the same family, and designers increasingly mix two chair styles at one table.
79" Varnished Oak Bok Dining Table · Ethnicraft
Shop the Bok table →
Acropolis Dining Chair · Jonathan Adler
Shop the Acropolis chair →
PI Dining Chair · Ethnicraft
Shop the PI chair →
Explore dining tables and dining chairs.
5. Lighting Is Becoming the Art
The chandelier has taken over from the painting as the thing guests look at first. The 1stDibs survey flagged Murano glass pendants as a strong designer favorite for 2026. More broadly, fixtures are being chosen as sculpture: natural materials, adjustable compositions and scale that fills the volume of a room.
Alabaster Blocks Chandelier Duboce · Eichholtz
Shop the Duboce chandelier →
Vintage Brass Corda Chandelier 118" · Corbett Lighting
Shop the Corda chandelier →
See every chandelier, or the full lighting collection.
6. The Return of Character
What furniture is replacing minimalism? Expressive, collected furniture is replacing strict minimalism: carved and burl woods, decorative edges, bold prints, lacquer, and pieces that look found rather than bought as a set. The 1stDibs 2026 survey found 39 percent of designers expect maximalism to stay popular, with eclecticism and organic modernism close behind. The new restraint is one strong object per room, not an empty one.
This is the most personal of the seven ideas. Character comes from grain, carving and craft, and from shapes that make people smile. These three pieces would be memorable in any room.
Light Brown Burl Chair Arcadia · Eichholtz
Shop the Arcadia chair →
Tabwa Coffee Table · Ethnicraft
Shop the Tabwa table →
The statement piece: Serpentine Chaise · Jonathan Adler
Shop the Serpentine chaise →
7. The End of the Perfectly Matched Room
What colors are replacing all-beige interiors? Warm, saturated colors are replacing all-beige rooms: chocolate brown, burgundy, cornflower blue and pistachio led the 1stDibs 2026 designer survey, while tan fell sharply. You do not need to repaint to join in. A velvet sofa, a lacquered table or an ochre chair against warm neutrals does most of the work.
What furniture makes a home look expensive? Materials with visible depth make a home look expensive: solid stone, real wood grain and burl, velvet, and lacquer. So do a few pieces with strong outlines and proper scale. Mixing makers, eras and textures reads as considered, while a matching set from one collection reads as bought in a single afternoon.
Homes & Gardens called it "collected, not curated," and it is the idea that holds the other six together. The fastest way in is a small, saturated object, and high-gloss lacquer is one of the forms designers named for 2026.
Joy Side Table · Whiteline Modern Living
Shop the Joy side table →
How do you mix without chaos? Keep one element constant, such as a wood tone, a metal or a color family, and let everything else vary. We cover more of these principles in 5 Interior Design Rules That Will Transform Your Space and The Art of the Living Room.
The common thread across all 15 pieces is that each one comes from a different design conversation, and they still sit well together. That is the real 2026 skill: editing across makers. Eichholtz, Caracole, Ethnicraft, Jonathan Adler, TOV, Whiteline and Corbett are all under one roof, in stock in the US, and a Matho designer can help you put them together through a design consultation. Or start with what just landed in New Arrivals.
The Matho Edit: 15 Pieces to Know
FAQ: What Designers Are Buying in 2026
What furniture is trending in 2026?
Sculptural, softly curved seating, natural stone tables with real weight, and chandeliers chosen as art lead 2026. Richer wood tones, burl, lacquer and decorative edges like fringe and piping are also rising. Rooms are being collected from several makers rather than bought as matching sets.
What sofas are interior designers using in 2026?
Designers favor sofas with a strong outline: curved, channeled or segmented backs, generous proportions, and upholstery in velvet, chenille or leather rather than plain cream. Skirted sofas are returning too, cited by 24 percent of designers in the 1stDibs 2026 survey.
Are curved sofas still in style?
Yes. Curved furniture remained one of the top designer picks in the 1stDibs 2026 survey at 43 percent. The shape is staying. What is changing is the fabric, with velvet, chenille and color taking over from all-cream bouclé.
Is bouclé furniture still popular?
Bouclé is still used, but no longer as the defining look. Designers now recommend it on one strongly shaped piece, ideally in a color, layered with linen, velvet, mohair, wood and stone rather than repeated across a room.
Is travertine furniture still in style?
Yes. Travertine has settled in as a long-term material rather than a passing trend, especially in solid, sculptural coffee tables, dining tables and side tables. Its natural variation means each piece is unique, which fits the 2026 preference for pieces with character.
What coffee tables are designers using?
Low, heavy coffee tables with a clear material story: solid travertine or marble, hand-carved wood, and organic or pebble shapes. They are replacing thin glass-and-metal tables because they anchor a seating group and read as quality from across the room.
What colors are replacing all-beige interiors?
Chocolate brown, burgundy, cornflower blue and pistachio led the 1stDibs 2026 designer survey, while tan fell sharply. The easy way in is one saturated upholstered piece or a lacquered table set against warm neutrals.
What furniture makes a home look expensive?
Materials with visible depth, such as solid stone, real wood grain and burl, velvet and lacquer, combined with a few pieces of strong shape and proper scale. Mixing makers and eras also looks more considered than a single matching collection.
What are the best luxury furniture brands?
The best brand depends on the job. Names designers rely on include Eichholtz for statement lighting, stone and museum-inspired pieces, Caracole for tailored upholstery, Ethnicraft for solid-wood craft, Jonathan Adler for character pieces, and Corbett Lighting and Hudson Valley Lighting for chandeliers. Matho Home carries all of them, with US delivery.
What furniture is worth investing in?
Spend most on the pieces you use every day and see from every angle: the sofa, the dining table and one statement light. Solid stone and solid wood age well and are hard to fake. Save on accents like side tables and objects, which are also the easiest pieces to change as trends move.
Sources: 1stDibs 2026 Interior Design Trends survey (November 2025); Homes & Gardens, 6 Furniture Trends for 2026 (January 2026); Livingetc, Sofa Trends 2026 (December 2025); Livingetc, Is Bouclé Outdated in 2026? (May 2026).