Commercial lounge seating rarely surprises, but Sandler delivered a sharper, more sculptural direction at BDNY 2025. Their newest upholstered pieces feel deliberate, modern, and ready for high-traffic hospitality spaces. Sandler’s broader catalog is familiar to many designers, and these additions signal a confident step into softer, more architectural forms.

Charlotte modular seating led the launch. It is made in America and built for spaces that need flexible lounge zones that still look intentional. The pieces curve easily into arcs or soften a standard corner plan. Bau, designed by Note Design Studio, brings a firmer geometry. Its modules can stand alone as lounge chairs or lock together as low sectionals. Both collections feel right for hotel lobbies, coworking floors, and any project where modern lounge seating needs to hold long-term visual weight.

The Maja side chair and Rose high-back lounge chair round out the group. Maja sits on a four-spoke aluminum swivel base and has a soft, buoyant back created with synthetic feather padding. Rose reads as a quiet architectural move. Its tall profile creates privacy without pulling attention away from the rest of a plan. Together they show Sandler’s growing investment in comfort-driven, hospitality-ready silhouettes.

And then there is the Woodwell Coffee Table. It looks like an illusion: a circular lens that appears to drop into a brick-lined well. Light bounces through it and reflects back onto the people sitting around it. It is clever, unexpected, and a smart counterpoint to the upholstered forms.

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