We all need a chair to curl up in, to rest those tired tootsies at the end of the day while relaxing with a cup of Mexican hot chocolate. Here’s some of my favorites :

Above, we have the Womb Chair by Eero Saarinen from Design Within Reach ($2943), The Louise Armchair in white linen ($1222) and the green velvet Chinon Armchair ($760) from Oka Direct, and the polka dot Cambridge from Laura Ashley ($1332).

I didn’t say they were practical…just wonderful. Check out www.dwr.com , www.okadirect.com , and www.lauraashley.com . By the way, there really was a Laura Ashley. She and her husband began their business in the 1950s, manufacturing head scarves a la Audrey Hepburn in the film Roman Holiday. They silk-screened the fabrics on their own kitchen table, using patterns they discovered while on vacation in Italy. The small scarves were a dime a dozen in Rome, but the Ashleys were the first to bring the prints to England. They copied them unashamedly and a design empire was born!