Thuma Is Ready to Take Over Your Living Room

This magazine has been on the Thuma campaign trail for a while. We've written a deep dive on the bed that made the brand famous. We've awarded it in our three most recent Home Awards in 2025, 2024, and 2023 for its newest bed, credenza, and dresser, respectively. And now, the brand is launching a living room collection featuring two different sofas and two coffee table styles.

This is, honestly, a good thing. The Esquire editors have one more piece of minimalist furniture to fawn over. That said, I can't help but wonder, are we going too minimalist? If my living room becomes Thuma media console, Thuma bookshelf, Thuma coffee table, and Thuma sectional, are we just recreating IKEA for rich Brooklynites and Silicon Valley types? Soon I'll have to call my dog-sitter and tell him that I forgot to mention our Borzoi has anxiety because we don't let him up on the Thuma sofa. "Please spend 10 minutes on the ground with him."

Maybe we temper that by going half Thuma with the interior decorating? In which case, the sofa is the absolutely perfect addition the the lineup. The look is simple, modern shapes, but they don't take that overly sharp look that really kills contemporary furniture. The edges are soft, and the overall look is cozy, something you would actually let the dog lay on. Of the entire collection, I'm most attracted to the Essential with a mocha fabric and walnut finish on the base. It goes brown and earthy, which livens up the modernism quite a bit. Drape a Ralph Lauren western bed blanket, and we're creating something modern and modular that still manages to be homey.

Which reminds me, the thing that really draws me to this release—besides the fact that, sure, if you want to go full Thuma with your house you can now—is that the living room system is inherently modular. The sofa-sectionals can be retooled with simple Japanese joinery. And since the dimensions of the Beam coffee table align so perfectly with the sofa, you can create a middle of the sofa side table situation. It's the high-concept livability that was reserved to the coked-out designs of Italian modernists in the 1970s and '80s, but it's toned down to fit modern tastes and affordable enough for regular people to buy.

Last thing to mention is the Pillar coffee table. Personally, I find it really handsome. It's simple and monolithic, really masculine. I love it in the square shape. And I adore any of the wood finishes. The gray is... not for me. I see enough gray outside my home.

If you've been on the Thuma forums, you've been expecting this. It's finally time to shop. If you haven't been, click through, explore, and inject your home with a bit of sophisticated minimalism that's (probably) going to find its way into another one of our Esquire best of lists.