Material Composition Unfolds Room by Room in Eureka Ergonomic’s Arundel Collection
Continuity of proportion and material, carried from one room to the next, is the ambition behind the Arundel Collection by Eureka Ergonomic. Across six designs that settle into the principal spaces of the home, the same palette of walnut, leather, stone, and brass recurs, deftly reinterpreted for each piece. The wood that frames the arms of a broad modular sofa in the living area reappears as the top of a sideboard in the dining room, while metal accents move from a console in the entry to the edge of a channel-tufted headboard in the bedroom.
Making its debut at High Point Market this fall, the collection signals a broader shift in thinking for the California-based company. “For us, Arundel is more than Eureka entering another furniture category,” says founder and CEO Tom Hu. “It is an important step from designing individual products toward building a complete residential design language.”
The work began with a question the Eureka Ergonomic team asked about the luxury home: whether a residential language remained to be fully expressed. Arundel took shape as a balance of qualities, pairing warmth and substance with the clarity of contemporary European design. “We wanted Arundel to be modern without becoming thin or overly minimal; substantial without becoming traditional; materially rich without becoming visually busy,” Hu says.
A Shared Palette
At the center of Arundel is material composition, an approach that lets the palette shape the silhouette, scale, and feel of the furniture. Cowhide from Italy and South America, selected for its hand and the patina it develops with use, lends softness to the touch; American walnut, with a grain that shows character without excess, threads warmth from one design to the next; stone, drawn from an edited range of greens, blacks, whites, and warmer tones, grounds the whole; and antique brass and champagne gold sharpen the edges. No single element is meant to stand alone. “The interest comes from the relationship among them,” Hu says.
Three principles guide every piece: proportion, transition, and restraint. The forms sit broad and low, with softened corners and a strong horizontal line. Where one material gives way to another, a seam, a shift in thickness, or a change in level gives the junction definition, and Eureka Ergonomic often leaves those joins in view as a mark of the craftsmanship. “We pay close attention to the moment when leather meets walnut, wood meets stone, or stone meets metal,” Hu explains. Restraint keeps each combination in balance, allowing the most expressive material in a piece to lead while the others recede.
In Composition
Long, low, and assembled in sections that can run in a straight line or turn a corner, Arundel’s sofa sets a main body of ivory upholstery against ends in tobacco-toned leather, with a walnut table integrated into the run of seats. For Hu, it is the clearest expression of the collection, a piece in which all of its ideas come together at once. Its proportions are deliberate, sized to hold their own in a generous residence. “From across the room, you first read it as one calm, substantial composition,” he says. “Only as you come closer do you begin to discover the relationships between the materials, the seams, the transitions, and the functional surfaces.”
Arundel’s accompanying coffee table, accented in champagne gold, steps across two heights in wood and natural stone. Intended for the entry and dining room, a console and a sideboard share a grounded, linear profile, the first raised on crossed, curved supports and the second resting on a slim frame with drawers at its center and a cabinet at each end.
A wide, channel-tufted headboard extends into a vanity on one side and a nightstand on the other, allowing bed and bedside to read as one continuous plane. With a wall system of aluminum panels, lit shelving, and glass cabinets, Arundel reaches beyond freestanding furniture and into the architecture of the home.
The Debut
The collection’s name was chosen to evoke permanence, calling to mind a residence that deepens over time and passes from one generation to the next. “Contemporary, but not temporary,” Hu says. “That is an important distinction for Arundel.”
Arundel will be on view at High Point Market October 17 to 21 in Eureka Ergonomic’s fourth-floor showroom, IHFC D440, open throughout the show to the design trade, retailers, and buyers. Positioned within the brand’s Attainable Luxury tier, the collection will be staged as a complete residence. “Photography can communicate silhouette, but being in the room reveals the things that matter most to us: where leather meets walnut, how stone changes the visual center of gravity, how metal controls an edge, how the materials respond to light, and how the proportions affect the space around them,” Hu adds.
