Aesthetically pleasing, ergonomically appropriate if you were recovering from being cryogenically frozen for thirty years, with clean, geometric lines that feel true to its owner’s villainous aesthetic: this design is a real success, particularly in comparison to sharks with laser beams on their heads. 

Kirk’s chair from the ‘60s Star Trek set at Paramount Studios sold for a cool $304,000 in 2002, and Trekkies both buy and build their own replicas of it all over the world. With blocky, confident, sci-fi chic —and the reported ability to send a shiver of William Shatner’s campy cool down your spine when you sit in it — this chair is man cave-ready.

As Pee Wee Herman’s anthropomorphic furniture/roommate, Chairy certainly had personality— a simple, sidekick-ish personality, sure, but when your seating can move and sing, predictability is a good thing. No one wants volatile upholstery.

QE2’s Throne in the House of Lords does not look comfortable, and as the judges are fond of saying, a piece’s form can’t outweigh its function. It does seem like the only seat in which it would be plausible to wear that cloak and crown during the State Opening of Parliament; since it’s used on an extremely limited basis a handful of times each year, its bling might excuse its probable effect on Her Majesty’s lower back.