Many hospitality establishments - from hotels, to pubs, to members-only clubs - offer a 'home from home' atmosphere, and armchairs are a hugely useful addition to your furniture in order to achieve this.
We're not talking about the type of armchairs you have in your living room at home, although it's no coincidence that the word 'lounge' gets used both for domestic living rooms and for the most comfortable part of a pub or the communal area of a hotel.
The parallels continue beyond the name, just with more practical and hardwearing pub and hotel furniture, such as leather armchairs with sturdier construction.
You get the best of both worlds - the comfort of a plush leather armchair, with the durability of an item of furniture designed for intensive use in a commercial setting.
But there are other types of armchair in commercial furniture too, such as wooden armchairs (you may call them 'carvery chairs' in the sense of dining chairs) that add elegance to a restaurant floor.
These complement many of the armless styles of dining chairs, so you can mix and match the number of each you prefer, or you may be able to get a good balance of both in one of our package deals.
Often dining armchairs of this type are placed at the ends of a rectangular table, with armless chairs along the sides - giving the lone diners at the end a little more protection against passers-by.
And armchairs are often the best choice for conference furniture too, providing rows of audience seating with clearly marked divisions between each seat - so each spectator has sufficient room between them and their neighbour.
Conference furniture of this type often comes with an interlocking mechanism, so each seat can be linked with the next one along, creating more stable rows that will not get knocked out of alignment.
The arms serve a very practical purpose here, and even on conference chairs with no interlocking feature, it's easier to keep the chairs aligned, simply by lining up the arms.
Whatever the setting, armchairs provide space and comfort - turning all kinds of venues into a lounge-like environment for more relaxed seating.