THE COUPLE first spotted the sinuous sofa in the lobby of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in the 1970s. There on a family trip from New York, they couldn’t get the curved 17.5-foot sectional—a $25,000 piece tufted in segments like a caterpillar and named “Non Stop” by Swiss furniture brand de Sede—out of their minds. Soon after their Israel trip, they stumbled upon the exact same couch in the “Sales & Bargains” column of New York magazine for less than a third of the retail price. “Someone had ordered it and never picked...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 08, 2020 17:54 UTC