Poltrona Frau’s DressCove Night System: A Wardrobe Woven with Craft and Light

Poltrona Frau has always treated the bedroom not as a private corner but as a stage for intimacy, ritual, and quiet elegance. With the DressCove Night System, the Italian brand extends its nighttime collection into a new dimension — modular, versatile, and deeply refined. Conceived by architect and designer Dante Bonuccelli, the system is a meditation on how storage can move beyond utility, becoming architecture, atmosphere, and craft at once.

Instead of heavy partitions, a new upright system allows wardrobes and walk-in closets to appear lighter, almost suspended. Concealed lighting runs through the structure, tucked into uprights or shelves, creating a glow that feels both invisible and essential. Technical materials like structural aluminium meet the warmth of wood and the softness of Pelle Frau® leather. The result is tactile, sensual, yet measured — furniture that speaks to both function and emotion.

Nicola Coropulis, CEO of Poltrona Frau, describes the project as an evolution of identity. The bedroom has always been central to the brand, he notes, because it connects most deeply to intimacy. With DressCove, that identity is expanded through a fully customisable system, enriched by the brand’s Interiors in Motion unit. The precision of leather detailing, stitched and finished down to the minutest corners, ensures that what is touched daily feels timeless, not temporary.

The modularity of the system is striking. Uprights can form free-standing walk-in closets or serve as supports for traditional wardrobes with sliding or hinged doors. The absence of dividing panels creates a sense of space, while bevelled-edge shelves with curved corners soften the geometry. Wood, laminate, and Pelle Frau® leather appear in different variations, each combination producing a different rhythm of materiality. Lighting adapts as well — vertical inside fitted wardrobes, horizontal beneath shelves in open walk-ins — ensuring the interiors glow where the eye most needs them.

Poltrona Frau’s mastery of leather takes centre stage. Every component, from upright supports to handles, is dressed in Pelle Frau®, available in eighteen ColorSphere Impact Less shades. Clients can request any other colour from the broader ColorSphere palette, ensuring wardrobes integrate seamlessly with the brand’s wider world of interiors. Wood finishes include Golden Walnut, Dark Oak, Brown Oak, and Pickled Oak, with the choice of doors in glass, wood, or leather upholstery.

The details go beyond structure into lifestyle. Accessories — drawers, racks, compartments for shoes, bags, watches, ties — are all designed to move and adapt as habits change. To complete the system, Poltrona Frau introduces Cherish and Alcove, two families of organising boxes that carry the same refinement as the wardrobes themselves. Cherish is made from natural raffia with leather lids and handles stamped with the Poltrona Frau logo, while Alcove, in Cuoio Re-Saddle, offers quadrangular forms in smoky quartz and cognac leather with magnetic closures. Both series come in multiple sizes, upholstered internally in leather, turning storage into objects of desire.

Seen together, the DressCove Night System is more than a wardrobe. It is a quiet architecture of intimacy — a place where light, leather, and wood fold into one another, where modularity does not mean compromise but freedom. It is Italian design at its most deliberate: measured, tactile, endlessly customisable, but always anchored in craft.

In India, Poltrona Frau’s DressCove Night System can be experienced at its flagship store in Mumbai, Wakefield House, Dougall Road, and across locations in New Delhi, Surat, Bangalore, and Hyderabad.

Discover more at www.poltronafrau.com.