A rocking chair has to go somewhere you would sit anyway, or it turns into the thing that holds folded washing. White bouclé on a curved wooden base, the Liva Boucle Rocking Armchair earns a bedroom corner or the space beside a window, near enough to a lamp to be worth sitting in after dark.

Rocking is something you do, not something the chair does: the motion comes off the floor through your feet, and the seat is 45cm above it. That is about the height of the chair you eat at, which makes the test a free one — if your feet sit flat at the dinner table, they sit flat here. Up on your toes, the stroke is short and keeps dying out.

Deep carpet is the wrong floor for it: a curved runner has to roll along its arc, and thick pile gives way under it instead. There, a chair on legs costs you nothing.