Going into 2027, the throw pillows leaving our studio most often share five traits: block-print patterns, green-leaning palettes, a decorative edge instead of a plain seam, lumbar shapes rather than another square, and performance fabric used indoors. That's not a forecast from a trend report. It's what we're actually cutting on the table every week.
I have an unusual vantage point on this. When you sew every cover to order, you watch taste change one order at a time, months before it shows up in a magazine. Here's what that looks like right now, and what's quietly on its way out.
1. Block prints keep winning
Block-print patterns have been the steadiest thing in our order book for two years and they haven't slowed down. The appeal is practical: the slightly irregular, hand-carved look reads warm rather than corporate, and the mid-scale repeat sits comfortably next to almost anything. A pink Willoughby block print or a Daphne floral block print will still look current in five years, which is the only trend prediction I'm comfortable making.
2. Green is doing what blue used to do
Blue and white will never leave, and I'd never suggest otherwise. But green has become the color people build a room around: moss, olive, jade, that soft garden green that sits somewhere between sage and grass. We're sewing far more green florals and green lattice stripes than we were two years ago, and they're going into rooms that used to be entirely blue.
3. The edge is where the money shows
The single biggest change in what customers select isn't fabric at all. It's the finish. Plain-seam covers used to be the default. Now more orders come through with a self welt, a half-inch flange, or a contrast piping, and the difference on a sofa is striking. A welt gives a pillow a crisp architectural outline; a flange gives it a soft, slightly couture edge. It's the least expensive way to make a room look professionally decorated.
4. Lumbars instead of a fourth square
Three squares in a row on a sofa is the arrangement everyone grew up with, and it's being replaced by two squares and a lumbar. A 12x20 or 12x22 in front breaks the symmetry, adds a third scale, and (the part nobody mentions) is genuinely more comfortable behind your lower back. If your sofa grouping feels stiff, this is usually the fix. Our throw pillow size guide has the full size-by-size breakdown.
5. Performance fabric, used inside
Indoor/outdoor fabric used to mean the patio. Now it means the family room with a golden retriever and two children. The prints have gotten genuinely beautiful, and the fabric shrugs off the things that ruin an ordinary cover. A blue Deauville floral or the Happy Jaguar looks like a decorator's choice and behaves like a parent's. The whole range lives in our indoor/outdoor collection. Several of our coastal throw pillow covers, like the Serena & Lily Deauville florals, come in indoor/outdoor performance fabric.
6. Fewer pillows, chosen more carefully
Order sizes have shifted. People buy three covers they thought hard about instead of six they were lukewarm on, and they buy a $5 fabric sample first. I love this trend more than any of the others, because it's the one that makes rooms look good.
What's fading
Matching sets of four identical pillows. Grey-on-grey everything. Word pillows. And the belief that patterns have to match. The rooms people are actually falling in love with mix three or four, which is exactly what our guide to mixing patterns with throw pillows is for.
Where to start
If you want one cover that puts you squarely in 2027, make it a mid-scale block print in a green or a soft pink, in a 12x22 lumbar, finished with a self welt. Every cover is made to order in our Charlotte, NC studio in one to three weeks. Browse the full range in our new arrivals.