An armchair is one of the few pieces of furniture that has to justify its footprint every single day. It takes up space in a room that could be used for something else, so it had better be worth it. The ones we’ve pulled together here are not just good looking chairs. They are the chairs that change how a room feels to be in, the one a guest gravitates to, the one you think about when you’re not at home. We’ve been thinking about proportion, about how a chair sits in relation to a sofa, about whether the upholstery will still look right in three years, about the difference between a chair that photographs well and one that actually holds you properly for an hour with a book. High backs, low slung seats, occasional chairs that do more than occasion. There is an armchair in this collection for every room that needs one thing done properly.