Since I first saw the bridge of the Next Generation Enterprise, I felt that of all the things they got right with that show, the chairs were the best improvement on the original series.
Executive seating is rightly nothing if not comfortable.
Now, the wife has wanted reclining chairs by our fireplace (for her football viewing, natch) for the longest time, but La-Z-Boys and the like are all far too overstuffed and bulky for our style, not to mention they would overwhelm our smallish rooms.
Behold! Our Valentines’ gifts to each other:
The ones we picked up at our local Costco were in rich dark brown leather, assembled in a trice, and were under $500 apiece out the door, and that’s including our ridiculous sales tax.
I’ll have a pic of of them flanking the fireplace up in the next day or so. Svelte, modern recliners — I love these!
Edited to add: Dirtcrashr, in comments, may think he’s flattering our new acquisitions by comparing them to the iconic Eames chair. I’d argue ours are better — the Eames’ seat is “seat is permanently tilted at a 15-degree angle to take the weight off your lower spine and properly distribute it to the back of the chair” — ours recline over a range of degrees, and at our will, not the predetermined ideal of some snooty designers.
Seriously, I hadn’t noticed the resemblance to the Eames; thanks for the input!
Easy with the Eames Chair there buddy, you might over-relax, and if you wear a hawaiian-shirt anywhere near that thing you might fall into a glistening pool of Relaxium!
If I got a job on a starship, the first thing I would do, would be to take the explosives out of my chair and workstation.
Second thing, I’d get a seat belt for my chair. Because the ship is bound to get shot, and my chair and/or computer is going to explode, and then I’m going to fall down and need sick bay.