The Pizza Project: A Wedge-Shaped Sofa Built From A Client’s Sketch
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
SUMMARY: Giulia came to us with a hand sketch and a room with an awkward angled wall. Our technical drawings worked out exactly how to build it, and we handmade a custom Mah Jong sofa in her own chenille fabric. The result is our "pizza" sofa, with a wedge-shaped seat that fits her room exactly.
Project at a Glance
Clients Giulia
Location Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
Room Ground-floor bunk room with an angled wall
Piece Custom mah jong sofa with a wedge-shaped seat for an angled wall
Materials Client’s own chenille upholstery fabric (COM)
Dimensions About 297 × 195 cm (117 × 77 in)
Made Handmade to order
Investment $6,580
What We Customized
“Pizza” seat
A wedge-shaped seat and mat cut at 65° and 25°, so the sofa sits flush against the angled wall.
Pizza crust back
A back support angled to follow the wedge all the way to the wall.
Single seaters
Two 95 cm seaters, sized to line up with the pizza seat.
Fabrics
Giulia’s own chenille upholstery fabric (COM).
A Sketch to Start, and One Very Awkward Wall
Giulia knew exactly what she wanted, right down to the centimeter.When Giulia first got in touch, she’d already drawn the sofa herself. Her hand sketches showed every seat, mat and back support, each one labeled and measured, for a room in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
The tricky part was the wall. It doesn’t meet the room at a neat right angle but runs off on a slant, so a regular sofa pushed against it would hit corner-first and leave an awkward gap.
Along with her sketches, she sent us a professional floor plan and her own fabric. What she asked of us was simple to say out loud: build the sofa she’d drawn, keep it low to the floor and make it sit flush against that wall.
Turning a Hand Sketch Into Something We Could Build
We kept refining her sketch until every angle matched her wall.Giulia’s sketches were great, and it was clear she knew that room better than anyone. She’d marked where the seaters went, where the mats sat underneath and where the open floor began.
But what the sketch can’t tell you is the exact angle where a cushion meets a wall. On a wall like hers, being off by a few degrees leaves a gap you’d notice every time you walked in.
So we sat down with her floor plan as a team and worked it through. Our technical drawings put the wedge at 65° on one side and 25° on the other. From there we went back and forth with Giulia over several rounds.
Our first round followed her sketch closely, with 120 cm seaters. Eventually, we settled together on 95 cm seaters and a 107.3 cm wedge.
Creating the Pizza Slice
And our studio, we still call this one the Pizza Project.The two square seaters sit side by side, but between them and the slanted wall there’s a triangle of floor no square seat can fill. A standard corner piece would either stick out into the room or leave empty floor behind it. Neither looked anything like Giulia’s sketch.
So we made the wedge from scratch. The seat and the mat underneath are cut to the angle of the wall and finish in a squared-off 20 cm tip. The back support follows the same line all the way along.
Look at it from above and it’s obvious where the nickname came from.
It’s a giant slice of pizza. And the back support looks just like a crust.
It’s a silly name for a serious bit of geometry and customization. And we’re proud of it.
Why do we work out every angle before cutting any fabric?
A wedge only works if its angle matches the wall exactly. Over an edge about a meter long, being two degrees off opens a gap of around 3.5 cm (1.4 in) at the far end. That’s why we draw every angle first and cut the pieces to the drawing.
Wedge Mat
Pizza Seat
CrustUpholstering It in Giulia’s Own Fabric
Giulia brought her own chenille, and we made it work on every angle.Most people start by ordering our 220 free fabric swatches, but Giulia had already found hers. It’s a chenille upholstery fabric in oatmeal, with little flecks of orange and gray that show up close.
Chenille is easy to work with on a square cushion. A wedge is a different story, because the fabric has to wrap a sharp angle and still sit neatly at the tip. It’s the kind of detail we pay close attention to whenever clients are using their own fabric (COM).
We tufted every seat and mat with buttons covered in the same chenille. Every piece also has removable covers that come off for cleaning.
The Result
The finished sofa looks just like Giulia’s sketch, and it sits flush against the wall.
The pizza seat meets the slanted wall at 65° and 25°, so there’s no gap to hide behind a pillow. The seaters, mats and back supports all sit where Giulia drew them, in the chenille she chose.
The sofa arrived with customs duties, tariffs and import taxes already included, so there were no surprise fees at the door.
And delivery wasn’t the end of it. Like with all our customers, we provide Giulia with lifetime support.
- INCLUDED
- Customs duties, tariffs and import taxes
- AFTER DELIVERY
- Lifetime support: product care and adding modules
In Their Words
“We had a fantastic experience with Adorn Croft! Sloane provided exceptional support throughout the design of our custom sofa and teak tables. Her team’s follow-through and service were top-notch. We’re thrilled with the final result—highly recommend!”
BRANDYE, CALIFORNIA
Questions We Get About Projects Like This
We can make a sofa that fits an awkward room by designing every piece around the room’s real shape. Giulia’s room has a wall that runs off at an angle, so we built her sofa with a wedge-shaped “pizza” seat that fills the corner exactly.
We can make a Mah Jong sofa fit against a slanted wall by cutting a custom module to the wall’s exact angle. For Giulia, we cut the pizza seat and its mat at 65° and 25°, so the sofa sits flush against her wall with no gap.
We make sure a custom sofa fits an awkward space by working out every dimension and angle in technical drawings before we cut any fabric. Giulia sent us her hand sketch and floor plan, and we refined the drawings with her over several rounds until every piece lined up with her room.
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