Sunken Sofas, Custom Made for Refined Interiors
Interior designer Mark Alexander designs and manufactures custom made sunken sofas for luxury residences across Australia, creating each piece to the exact proportions, upholstery specification and spatial requirements of the room it will occupy.
Luxury interior designer Mark Alexander is based in Melbourne and has been producing bespoke sunken sofas and custom seating for high-end residential interiors for more than 30 years.
A sunken sofa functions differently to a standard piece of furniture. The seating sits below the level of the surrounding floor, which changes sight lines, alters the experience of the space and places specific demands on the proportion of the back height, the depth of the seat and the relationship between the sunken sofa and the step detail around it. These are not decisions that can be resolved from a showroom catalogue.Luxury interior designer Mark Alexander visits every space before designing, so every dimension is calibrated to the room rather than estimated from a floor plan.
Precision Manufacture and Exceptional Upholstery Throughout
Every sunken sofa produced by Mark Alexander Design is built on a solid timber frame using high-quality foam densities selected for the intended use of the sunken sofa and premium upholstery materials sourced from Australian and international suppliers. The construction is engineered to hold its form, its comfort and its visual quality over decades of daily use. Nothing is built to a commercial average. Each custom made sunken sofa is built into the room.
Fabric and leather selections are reviewed on site, in the actual light conditions of the space, before any material decision is finalized. A fabric that reads well in a studio environment can behave entirely differently in a room with limited natural light or strong afternoon sun. Interior designer Mark Alexander accounts for these conditions as part of the design process rather than after the fact.
Contact Mark Alexander Design Artistry to begin your custom sunken sofa commission. Browse the portfolio of completed luxury interiors and bespoke seating to see how the studio resolves seating design at the highest level of craft and precision.
