That’s right folks, “The Lounger” from firm Hoverit is a built to order chair, that uses the power of magnets to literally float on air. While the plastic construction may not make it the most comfortable looking chair, surely nothing could be softer and more relaxing than lying back on your lounger and just floating on air?!

This cutting edge piece of furniture does not come cheap though, costing around £6,000, with several options for customization, including different colour acrylics and finishes.

Steve Wild from Hoverit is quoted as saying

The Hoverit Lounger is British designed and built. It is precision engineered from clear acrylic and hovers through the use of powerful magnets, floating up and down on two guide bars to give the feeling of lying in mid-air.

Their tag is “Float away your stress on our unique suspended lounger” and this certainly is a very unique piece of furniture. Apparently there are more chairs to come in the range of floating furniture from Hoverit, and we’ll certainly be looking out for them here at Lazy Boy Furniture. Incredible stuff, and if you’re looking for contemporary furniture, then you wont get any more cutting edge than this!

When you think recliner, chances are you think of a huge leather beast of a chair, with big padded arms and a huge base that takes up about the same about of space in your room as a regular sized couch would do. Either that or the basically the same piece of furniture covered in a rich channel fabric.

But stop, it doesn’t have to be like that! Not that there’s anything wrong with your traditional reclining chair, we’re definitely not saying that, but some of you out there might want to try one from the modern, something more up to date, maybe something a little more minimalist or Scandinavian style. Well, that’s more than possible, with modern design and manufacturing processes, recliners are becoming ever more svelte and surprising.

Lafer are one of the most commonly found makes of contemporary reclining chairs. They come in a variety of shapes, colours and sizes, and brandish quirky names such as Billie and Bjork (who’s job is it to come up with these names?). The designs are pretty tight, many have fold away foot rests that neatly tuck under the main body of the chair when not in use, and appear as conventional seating, apart from the tale tale levers by the sides.

At the other end of the scale you have offerings such as Ikea’s Torekov recliner, which looks like a shrunken down leather version on their world famous Klippan sofar, however it too is a full functioning reclining chair in a modern, if slightly boxy, form.

So you see, there’s no reason for your ideal piece of lazy boy furniture to necessarily look like what everyone expects of a comfy reclining chair, there are indeed plenty of options out there, you just have to seek them out a little harder. That and be prepared when unsuspecting guests first accidentally discover the reclining position, while holding that lovely cup of hot coffee you just made them!