We’re buying a new sofa and found that several models in a local shop were named after composers. (We think that it may have been the same shop which used to have on sale – quite without irony – an ‘Othello’ double bed.)
The ‘Mahler’ was appropriately well-upholstered and expansive, but we were disappointed that ‘Ives’ wasn’t covered in two different fabrics at once. And the ‘Liszt’ footstool doesn’t seem quite right somehow. The other composer represented is Borodin. We wondered about what others might be like – a minimalist but surprisingly comfortable ‘Webern’, for example.