Designed by Ubald Klug for De Sede in 1972, the DS-1025 Terrazza is less a sofa and more a landscape. Its stepped, modular form invites you to sit, recline, sprawl, or simply occupy it like a piece of terrain.

Nowhere does the Terrazza feel more at home than in Logan’s Run (1976), the dystopian sci-fi set in a 23rd-century domed city where residents live a hedonistic life, but must be executed at age 30 through a ritual of “Carousel” to manage population.

The film presents a world of artificial abundance. Interiors are carefully orchestrated.

The Terrazza fits seamlessly into this vision. Its undulating tiers mirror the film’s fascination with constructed landscapes. Living spaces become terrains to move across, not just rooms to hang about in. It also looks damn cool.

It appears again in Star Maidens (1976), where its terraced form reinforces a similar sense of off-world domesticity. The furniture feels slightly detached from everyday life, as though it belongs to a civilisation with different habits and expectations.

For those with a taste for parody, it also turns up in The Goodies: 2001 and a Bit (1976), a send-up of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here, the Terrazza becomes part of the visual language of futuristic interiors that audiences had already come to recognise. Even in jest, it holds its ground.

More recently, the Terrazza appears in HIM (2005), in a scene filmed at Spaceport America. A rather perfect setting. A sofa that has always felt like it belongs somewhere just beyond the everyday.

What makes the Terrazza endure is not just its form, but its refusal to behave like a standard piece of furniture. It sits somewhere between seating, sculpture, and stage.

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