Either way, you'll look soooo posh sitting in this chair. 5.Or a barrel chair so you get all the heft of a classic Chesterfield without the glossy, old-school library look.

Unlike other leather chairs, which can often appear bulky or like they belong in a stuffy library, the wooden arms offer a lot of negative space to give this seat a lightweight feel.

The winner of a competition to design a chair for the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries has been announced. Image caption, The winning design will be produced for the refurbished Weston ...