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A performance fabric sofa is upholstered to take what a household actually dishes out. Coffee, red wine, muddy paws, movie-night snacks — the fabric is engineered so spills sit on the surface instead of soaking in, and most marks lift with water and a cloth. This collection gathers every sofa, sectional and loveseat we carry whose own upholstery is a true performance fabric or performance velvet, from family-size modular sectionals to apartment-scale two-seaters.
Performance fabric is the flat-weave workhorse: tightly woven synthetics, often solution-dyed or treated (the Westwood sectionals use Crypton, a name-brand performance fabric), that resist stains and fading while feeling like everyday upholstery. Performance velvet brings the same easy-clean engineering to a plush pile — the Jubilee, Sanguine, Hilda and Liora sofas carry the look of a velvet sofa with a wipe-clean finish, so a teal or mulberry statement piece is no longer a high-maintenance gamble. Both live on this page because they make the same promise: a beautiful sofa you do not have to protect from your own life.
The deepest part of the collection is modular. The Sanguine and Jubilee performance velvet sectionals build from three-piece sets to five-piece arrangements, the Restore and Swift modular sofas rearrange as rooms change, and the Commix Cloud sleeper adds a guest bed to the same stain-resistant upholstery. Start from the full sectionals range if you want every configuration we carry, performance and otherwise.
Prefer a classic silhouette? The Bowen track-arm sofa, the Hartley 95-inch fully upholstered sofa and the channel-tufted Contese and Opportunity curved sofas all carry performance upholstery in tailored, design-led shapes. Matching performance velvet swivel chairs — Pirouette, Astral, Della and the Series chairs — finish the room in the same easy-clean material. For the complete upholstered seating picture, browse sofas, loveseats and chairs across every fabric we carry.
Blot, do not rub. Most spills on performance fabric lift with a damp cloth; tougher marks take a drop of mild soap in water. Because the resistance is built into the fiber or finish rather than sprayed on afterward, the protection does not wash out over time. Performance velvet asks for one extra habit — a quick pass with a clothes steamer or soft brush keeps the pile lying in one direction and the color even.
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