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Most of us choose a sofa for how it looks and feels in the showroom, on an ordinary, mild day. But sofas live with us through every season, and a British summer, increasingly warm and occasionally sweltering, treats leather and fabric quite differently. If you've ever peeled yourself off a hot leather seat on a July afternoon, you'll know exactl...

A large U-shaped sofa is a statement piece, generous, sociable, and made for gathering people together. In an open-plan home, it's arguably the perfect sofa: big enough to hold its own in a large space, and shaped to create a sense of enclosure in a room that might otherwise feel like an aircraft hangar. But a big sofa in a big space needs styli...

Two shapes dominate the world of generous, sociable seating: the corner sofa and the U-shape. Both wrap around a room, both seat a crowd, and both are brilliant for family life and entertaining. But they're not interchangeable, and the deciding factor is almost always one thing: the size of your room. Choose the wrong shape for your space, and y...