Jennifer Aniston’s Living Room Corner Showcases the ‘Forever Furniture’ Trend Designers Are Still Loving in 2025

Living room corners are rife with decorating opportunities. While it can be tempting to leave an empty corner vacant, these unloved spaces can be surprisingly easy to enhance with elegance. The simplest way to transform this area is to create a conversational corner – one that beautifully showcases one of the most enduring living room furniture trends: using curves in interior design. Using curved lines within a home offers a wealth of benefits, including the potential to add flow, dynamism, and an essential softness.

In actress Jennifer Aniston's living room, designed by Stephen Shadley, the curving shapes fuse with raw textural materials to reinterpret a retro vision of the future. While the photo of her home is from an older post, the design philosophy she championed remains deeply relevant for 2025, as it uses lines and cylindrical influences in profound, comforting ways.

When you're faced with an empty living room corner, filling it in a way that is both functional and beautiful can seem overwhelming. But if there is one thing most spaces lack, it is more comfortable living room seating. Full-on voluptuous or gently rounded, the 'curve' will lift any living room layout and soften the overall look of the corner, adding a subtle touch of shaping to your decor. As a design element, curves are something you feel; they soften the space but also give interesting negative volume to the room.

Joshua Smith, principal and founder of Joshua Smith Inc., speaks to the trend's maturity and staying power: ‘For furniture trends, we are seeing more sectional sofas become curved instead of square. Curves massively reemerged in the world of interior design a few years ago, and they are really coming to a climax this year, from sectional sofas to coffee tables.’

He emphasizes the connection to nature that makes this trend so timely: ‘This year, curved furniture is leaning more into biophilic and biomorphic influences, as we crave that grounding, indoor-outdoor connection in our homes, with these organic shapes promoting an energy of softness and calmness.’

Getting the proportions right when using curved furniture is essential. As with all pieces, you want to avoid couches or armchairs looking clunky and uncomfortable. It's important to carefully measure the base of the piece and factor in depth for maximum comfort – don’t go for style over substance. For small living rooms, curved furniture can genuinely help to soften the room and extend the eyeline, whereas in larger spaces, big sweeping curves create cozy, cocooning, warm moments.

Introducing curvaceous design into your home shouldn't feel overly complicated. If space is a premium and large pieces of furniture are no longer an option, you can instead invest in smaller decor ideas. It could quite simply be a circular sculpture, spherical lighting, or even art that depicts waves and fluid motions, bringing that desired softness to an unloved corner.

Shop the Look for Your Living Room Corner

Investing in a similar sofa, like this Curved Loveseat from Wayfair, is the most straightforward way to recreate Jennifer Aniston’s living room at home. But you can achieve the look even with smaller curved accents.

I particularly love these modern Metallic Vases from Wayfair, echoing the style of the one on her coffee table. And no recreation is complete without a throw pillow inspired by Aniston, adding texture and visual interest to an already effortlessly stylish space.