They were standing in a long, tubular room furnished with plush-upholstered swivel chairs and modular sofas.

Johnny, 11, decided the curved modular sofa in the family room would look better in three separate rather than contiguous sections.

Glancing round, the auditor took in the waiting area, from the bleached pine curves of the desk to the powder-blue modular sofa for visitors to sit on.

"It's really hard to put a ruffle on a modular sofa."

Mr. Caciuleanu and his partner, Ruxandra Racovitza, were effective as frustrated lovers on a modular sofa.

Natuzzi introduced an elegant, somewhat retro modular sofa by Mario Bellini with adjustable headrests and rolling, attached spring-loaded ottomans.

Nonetheless, he was the father of the modular sofa and the slab-side executive desk.

He has a vintage Danish modular sofa and a lacquered goatskin table, which was reclaimed from some house of ill repute, or so he'd like to believe.

She bade Banks sit on the modular sofa and sat opposite, on a matching armchair, the color of which Banks couldn't name.

The selling floor itself is all beige, with 16 dressing rooms, walls of mirrors, modular sofas, glass coffee tables, vases of fresh flowers and bowls of brightly colored gumdrops.