Custom Made Century Furniture Montego Tufted Roll Arm Sofa

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- Brand/Maker: Century Furniture
- Piece Name: Montego Tufted Roll Arm Sofa (custom made)
- Style: Traditional / … Read more Quick Hits
- Brand/Maker: Century Furniture
- Piece Name: Montego Tufted Roll Arm Sofa (custom made)
- Style: Traditional / Hollywood Regency-adjacent
- Materials: Brown velvet-like fabric; gridded tufting; perimeter dust skirt; reversible cushion with hooks
- Includes: Five decorative pillows
- Original Retail: $8,034
- Why We Love It: Custom-made Century Furniture in gridded brown velvet tufting with a dust skirt and five pillows included — at half its original retail, this sofa is the room-defining piece a sitting room has been waiting for.

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Custom-made furniture carries a different weight than production furniture. It means someone specified every element — the fabric, the tufting pattern, the skirt, the cushion configuration — and paid full custom pricing for the result. This Century Furniture Montego, originally retailed at $8,034, was built to spec in brown velvet-like fabric with gridded tufting, and it shows: the tufting is even and intentional across the entire back and seat, the dust skirt is properly tailored, and the single reversible cushion with its hook attachment system speaks to the kind of construction detailing that custom orders get and production runs don't always.

The brown velvet-like fabric is the design choice that makes this sofa: deep, warm, with a sheen that changes in different light. Gridded tufting in this fabric creates a composition that reads simultaneously as traditional (tufting is a period upholstery technique) and current (the geometric regularity of the grid is very contemporary). Five decorative pillows included means the styling is done — this sofa arrives ready to anchor a room.

A roll arm sofa in velvet tufting belongs in a formal living room, a library, a primary bedroom sitting area, or any space that wants its seating to make a statement. There's a touch of old-money drawing room here — the kind of sofa that makes tea service seem like a reasonable idea.

Design Style
Traditional / Hollywood Regency-adjacent — the tufted roll arm sofa is one of the most enduring forms in upholstered furniture, with clear Chesterfield precedents in English Victorian furniture and a continued life through Hollywood Regency and beyond. In brown velvet with gridded tufting, this piece leans toward the more formal, more dramatic end of the traditional spectrum. It would look entirely at home in a Scorsese film's protagonist's study, or in the kind of curated, layered interior that mixes antiques with velvet and brass.

Brand Legacy
Century Furniture, founded in 1947 in Hickory, North Carolina, has built a reputation as one of America's premier custom and semi-custom furniture manufacturers. Their willingness to execute complex upholstery specifications, their quality of materials and construction, and their design range — from traditional to contemporary — have made them a go-to brand for interior designers who need custom solutions at a high standard. The original $8,034 retail price for this sofa reflects the Century custom pricing structure; at Chairish pricing, it represents extraordinary value for what is genuinely a room-defining piece of furniture. See less