This work aims to verify the living room sofa consumption by agents positioned between the popular and lower middle layers in the Carioca social space from the perspective of symbolic domination proposed by Bourdieu. In this context, we understand that symbolically this consumption could be a reflection of individual expression of this subject or the result of a coercive process of inculcation generated by instances of legitimation and consecration working in the design field. To check this with the support of Pierre Bourdieu s theory we employ an investigation about the social production and use of it, in the West, of the seats next to what we now understand to be a sofa and tried to figure out how the formation of what we call living room in a brazilian home came to be. Along with this theoretical framework, we conducted a small field research, qualitative at first, with sofa industries, to know how this product is prepared, and later with consumers, to understand how your decision to choose the sofa was made. Thus, with the combination of the above mentioned theory with the field work, it was possible to confirm the presence of symbolic violence that, coming from the inculcation processes associated with the social arbitrary as a home should be, puts strong pressure on these agents for the acquisition of a hegemonic model of sofa.