Most chairs in most homes are just furniture that happens to be shaped like a chair. They fill a corner, they get sat in occasionally, and nobody thinks about them very much. We think that is a waste of a room. A genuinely good chair is one of the hardest working pieces you can buy because it pulls double duty. It has to look right in the space and it has to be worth sitting in for longer than five minutes. That combination is rarer than it should be. We have spent a lot of time sitting in chairs we would not recommend to anyone, and that experience has made us very clear on what we are looking for. Proper back support without the clinical feel. A shape that reads beautifully from across the room. Materials that wear well rather than dating fast. A chair that makes someone choose it over the sofa. These are the ones that actually clear that bar.