DS-600 Non-Stop Snake Sofa
What is this amazing image of?
This is a 1970’s vintage advertisement for Swiss luxury leather house de Sede with the non-stop DS-600 sectional sofa is styled like a giant snake.
A serious status sofa, the DS-600 is also known as The Snake, or the Non-Stop Sofa. Styled here with a giant brontosaurus, the sofa looks like an oversized centipede, or could be interpreted as artistic extension of the dinosaur’s tail.
Interestingly, around this time the sofa was logged by the Guinness Book of Records longest sofa in the world.
Who designed this super-long sofa?
The DS-600 non-stop sectional sofa was designed in 1972 by Swiss and German designers Ueli Berger, Eleonore Peduzzi Riva, Heinz Ulrich and Klaus Vogt.
Tell me more about this lengthy sofa!
The extravagant DS-600 sofa is a designer and taste-maker favourite – not only for its unique look, but also the customisable length.
Each piece can be connected and zippered to the next, for a multitude of choices in comfort – no matter the room size or design. From palatial ballrooms to compact living spaces, the configurations are infinite and are only limited by one’s imagination.
And on a final note, here are a few more vintage images of the non-stop DS-600…
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