Heart Shaped Plush Throw Cushion

A shaped cushion does something a square one cannot: it breaks the line of a sofa. A row of rectangles reads as furniture; one heart among them reads as a decision, which is why shaped cushions have stayed popular long after the novelty argument stopped applying.

The plush here is soft and dense rather than thin and stiff, so the cushion is genuinely comfortable to lean on rather than being purely decorative. The filling is distributed evenly, which keeps the shape defined instead of letting the point sag after a few weeks of use.

Several sizes are offered, from a small accent to something a child can curl up with, and it works equally on a sofa, a bed or a reading chair. Surface clean with a damp cloth rather than machine washing, which mats plush pile permanently, and plump it by hand occasionally to keep the filling from settling into one end.

• Shaped cushion breaks the line of a row of squares
• Dense soft plush that is comfortable to lean on
• Evenly distributed filling holds the shape
• Several sizes from small accent to child-size
• Surface clean only; plump by hand to keep the filling even