Image source: Kartell — Super Tubby
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Super Tubby
Super Tubby modular sofa for Kartell by Serafini and Palomba, with a painted steel frame.
3100 × 830 × 1150 mm
2025
117 kg
Approx. $13,000 (reference price; varies by region and retailer)
Official product information
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Overview
Kartell's SUPER TUBBY is a sofa system by Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba. The shop page shows the 4-seater sofa structure, code 07557VE, in Green. On the data sheet this is code 7557, configuration 2, in the Structure fabric colour VE.
Construction
It has a painted steel frame and a seat and backrest of variable-density polyurethane foam covered with fabric. The cover is removable. The maintenance leaflet adds polyester fibre over a plywood panel with a fabric covering.
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Specifications
- Dimensions (code 7557): 310, 115 and 83 cm, axes not labelled on the drawing
- Weight: 117.0 kg
- Covers: Bouclé Karibu, Structure and Cotton fabric, five colours each
- Fire-resistant covers: Cotton fabric FR, five colours
Story
A deep, soft sofa
Kartell's page presents SUPER TUBBY as more than seating: a sofa meant as the heart of the home, deep, soft and welcoming, with a large folded cushion. It adds that the designers aimed at informal, generous and fluid comfort in an essential design, and that the feet are decorative.
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Built from a few modular elements
The system consists of only a few modular elements designed to produce constantly changing combinations. The data sheet, headed SUPER TUBBY 2025, numbers its configurations from 1 to 11B and lists a pouf, code 7552, and two optional interlocking bars, code 7565.
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