The Costume sofa system, designed in a collaboration between Magis and Stefan Diez, is a pragmatic, transformable furniture.

“Magis came to me with the question: What if we completely rethought the sofa",” said designer Stefan Diez. The modular Costume sofa system, designed in a collaboration between Magis and Diez, is the result. It’s pragmatic, transformable furniture that keeps the environment top of mind by using minimal materials that are recycled and recyclable. There have been two ways to construct a sofa in the past ? either a wooden frame layered with padding and components or a metal frame with built-in suspension filled with foam and then covered. Both require lots of effort and expense, are difficult to repair and use foam that can’t be recycled. Magis and Diez have developed something new that’s worth talking about. “The system was to consist of only a few parts. At the beginning, it all seemed quite complicated, almost impossible,” said Diez.
The Costume sofa system doesn’t require its individual components be permanently attached to one another, making it easy to dismantle. Its elements consist of a body made from recycled and recyclable polyethylene produced using rotational-molding technology from furniture and car industry waste. An insert made of pocket spring cores provides cushioning for the seat and backrest, and on top is a thin layer of polyurethane foam. Everything is held together by a ...