Delphi Sofa

Overview

The Delphi Sofa, Model 4510 (2 seater, 205 cm), is a sofa by the Swiss designer Hannes Wettstein, dated 2007 on Fredericia's product sheet. Fredericia calls Delphi a contemporary classic, made with elegant upholstery details and glove-soft comfort, and says the sofa can stand alone or be combined with modules from Delphi Elements. Size: 205 cm long, 85 cm deep, 66 cm high, seat height 37 cm; weight 90 kg.

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Construction

The sofa is fully upholstered over an inner frame of wood with nozag springs, cold-cured foam in HR or CMHR grade, and a duvet of cut foam and fibres. The cover is non-removable and comes in fabric or leather. The base is aluminium or solid wood; the page lists oak light oil, black and brushed aluminium. Fredericia says it is crafted in Denmark at its upholstery workshop in Svendborg.

Specifications

• Upholstery: 122 fabrics (four groups) and 26 leathers (seven ranges)
• Base: oak light oil, black or brushed aluminium
• Weight: 90 kg
• Tests: strength and safety standards EN 1022:2005 and EN 16139:2013 (L2)

A Danish landscape sofa

Fredericia refers to Delphi as the iconic Danish "landscape" sofa and describes it as a modern sofa of extremely high quality. The Delphi collection section of the page presents the sofa as recognised today as a contemporary classic that shows Wettstein's industrial and methodical design approach, and it dates the series of sofas and single modules to 2007.

Details of the upholstery

The page names the stitching along the backrest and along the seat cushions as a signature detail, and says the armrests are unique and show off Fredericia's upholstery skills. It describes the backrest as formed by clean lines and precise curves, a shape that it says can only be achieved through expert upholstery, and calls the sofa carefully hand-upholstered.

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Comfort

Fredericia gives the comfort build-up as structured hard foam topped with a layer of down. The product sheet and the construction text instead list a duvet of cut foam and fibres, so the two texts name different top layers.