An armchair asks something of a room. It takes up floor space, it makes a statement, and if you get it wrong it just sits there looking like a decision you regret. The ones worth buying earn their place properly. They give a room somewhere for the eye to land. They make a corner feel like it was planned rather than leftover. We’ve been looking at proportion, at how frames age, at whether the upholstery is the kind you can live with rather than just admire in a photograph. A good armchair is also genuinely used. It becomes the reading chair, the one everyone quietly prefers, the piece visitors always comment on. What we’ve avoided here is anything that looks interesting in a showroom and awkward in a real home. These are chairs with presence and practicality in equal measure, in shapes and fabrics that suit how people actually furnish and live. Every one of them justifies the square footage.