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Along the arm of a long, low modular sofa, warm-grained walnut meets tobacco-toned leather at a clean, visible seam. The detail distills the thinking behind the Arundel Collection by Eureka Ergonomic, a family of designs for the living room, dining room, and bedroom in which leather, wood, natural stone, and metal work together to determine form and scale. “Luxury for us is not more decoration,” says founder and CEO Tom Hu. “It is more depth in material, proportion, and execution.”
The collection draws on two sensibilities: the enduring comfort of American furniture made for long-term living and the clarity of European modernism. For Hu, the aim was balance: “We wanted Arundel to be modern without becoming thin or overly minimal; substantial without becoming traditional; materially rich without becoming visually busy.”
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Where Materials Meet
The collection’s guiding principle, material composition, is easiest to read at the seams, where one element gives way to the next. A change in thickness or a step in level marks each transition. As Hu explains, “We do not always want to hide the join; often that is precisely where the quality of the execution becomes visible.”
The pieces sit broad and low, with softened corners and a scale calibrated for generous rooms. Stone, drawn from an edited range of greens, blacks, whites, and warmer tones, brings gravity, while antique brass and champagne gold are reserved for edges and supporting details. “We want people to see, touch, and understand each material, but no single material should dominate the furniture,” Hu notes.
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Piece by Piece
The modular sofa, which the company regards as the fullest expression of the collection, can run in a straight line or turn a corner, with a walnut table built directly into the run of seats. Warm ivory upholstery forms its main body, while cowhide from Italy and South America lends weight to the ends. Hu describes encountering it as an experience that unfolds in stages. “That sequence is very important to us: first you feel the piece, then you discover how it is made.”
Alongside the sofa, Arundel’s coffee table pairs wood and natural stone across two heights, finished with champagne gold details.
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Suited to the entry and dining room, a console lifts a broad top on crossed, curved supports, and a sideboard rests a generous surface on a slim frame, each pairing American walnut with antique brass. A channel-tufted headboard trimmed in champagne gold continues into a vanity and a nightstand to form one continuous plane, while a wall system of aluminum panels, lit shelving, and glass cabinets extends the collection beyond freestanding furniture.
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Together, the six pieces are designed to furnish a home as one composition, a language the brand sees reaching further into storage and architectural elements over time. The collection’s name was chosen to suggest permanence and a sense of belonging. “Contemporary, but not temporary,” Hu says. “That is an important distinction for Arundel.”
Positioned within Eureka Ergonomic’s Attainable Luxury tier, the collection makes its debut at High Point Market October 17 to 21 in the company’s fourth-floor showroom, IHFC D440, where it will be staged as a complete residence.
