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Nice try, but I'm not buying it. These rooms seem to scream, "Come back when I have real furniture." And that second room looks like an MCM cliche nightmare!

And what's up with putting an end table in front of the fireplace? Pfft!

Not exactly inviting and comfortable. I think that calling these chairs "lounge" anything is a misnomer. It would be good if you didn't want any weekend guests or your visitors to stay to long chatting in your livingroom.

I agree. Not comfortable.

Gotta agree with other folks. This could work if we were talking about comfy chairs. As is this looks like a waiting room.

This makes me think of this SNL skit!
http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/saturday-night-live-art-dealers/FxEGwFhDTNIxmHIq983DabcY2h9ZePxf

does anyone have those perch chairs from offi? are they really comfortable?

Cat,

That was hilarious. I now fear that I am like those people.

That video was awesome, thank you. :)

Alas the video ended before the best part. Brian is walking around the room and decides to sit on this chair. And one of the Nunnis is like "Oh no dont sit on that its an art installation!".

I don't think a pair of chairs is a good subsitute for a sofa as one doesn't need a large sofa and heck, even a love seat is much preferable to a chair and besides, how can one curl up in most chairs to watch a movie?

And besides, you can't fit as many bodies in a room if you don't have enough seating for them.

For true "lounge" type chairs, the Eames lounge chair, any comfortable chair w/ ottoman or heck, a Womb chair w/ ottoman (or without if you prefere) would be much better than these things for true lounging.

However that said, I'd still use a pair of them for occasional seating IN ADDITION to the couch IMO.

I've sat in those little plastic Pastille chairs - they're surprisingly comfortable, especially since you can rock 'em.

I rarely sit on our sofa. I always pick the chair - even if the ottoman is equally accessable to both.

One of the most appealing rooms in a movie I have ever seen is the the living room ( or "sitting" room) in The Quiet American, based on a Graham Greene novel, with Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser. It has four big rattan chairs with deep cushions around a table, in Vietnam around 1960. Urban and tropical.

or from another movie: "all I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air, with one enormous chair....."

That would be from the song "Wouldn't it be Lovely" from My Fair Lady....

The two Knoll's Krefeld lounge chairs and ottomans look very comfortable, as do the chairs by the fireplace, but I agree that some of others do not look like chairs you could curl up in to read a book. I like a sofa for stretching out but no matter how long a sofa is, it's usually occupied by only two people when guests are there, so it ends up offering no more seating that two chairs offer.