De Sede Patchwork Leather Cube Poufs, Set of 2

There is a particular kind of confidence in a cube. No legs to apologise for, no silhouette to fuss over — just a solid block of warm cognac leather that asks to be used. This pair of De Sede patchwork poufs has exactly that quality: honest, geometric, and quietly luxurious in the way only Swiss leather furniture from the 1970s tends to be.

Each pouf is built from a grid of hand-stitched leather panels, the patchwork construction that became a De Sede signature. The cognac hide has aged into a deep, lived-in tone, with subtle variation from panel to panel and the soft creasing that genuine leather earns over decades. Turn one over and the craft is plain to see — a cross-stitched base in darker leather, finished by hand rather than hidden away.

Sold here as a set of two, they are far more versatile than their simple form suggests. Push them together as a single low bench, scatter them as extra seating when friends arrive, or slide one in front of a lounge chair as a footrest. They work as hard in a reading corner as they do at the foot of a bed.

The patchwork language places them squarely alongside the rest of De Sede's leather output of the period — think of the same hand on our De Sede DS-11 patchwork sofa — and they sit comfortably among the rest of our vintage design furniture.

Like every piece at Vintz, this pair was hand-picked for character and condition rather than restored, then shipped worldwide in a custom wooden crate, fully insured. Buy them as a set and you get the best of vintage De Sede: material you can feel, a form that never dates, and the kind of relaxed practicality that makes a room feel lived-in rather than staged.