If the furniture is something you want to linger in for a long time, then you’ll want to make sure that it’s comfortable.

However, if you have a strong personal attachment to a particular style …

… you may bypass comfort.

We have a pair of Parisian bistro chairs that really aren’t that comfortable, but when we sit in them we’re immediately transported to the romantic café we visited a couple of years ago in Paris, and we forget all about the hard seats.


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