Beside a bedroom lamp, for the half hour of reading nobody else in the house gets — that is the spot the Olivia Velvet Armchair with Ottoman - Pink is bought for: pink velvet, splayed rubberwood legs, a stool covered to match.

Nothing joins the two pieces. The stool stands on its own legs, so it lives wherever heels last pushed it, and set in line the pair asks for 115cm of floor measured back to the wall. That is with the stool against the seat, not a step clear of it. Where the run is shorter than that, the stool ends up at the side of the chair working as a small table, which is a perfectly good thing for it to do and not the reason anybody buys a chair that arrives as two.