# How common are Recliners world wide?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 13, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674 "2014-01-13T17:14:24Z")
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/1 "2014-01-13T17:14:24Z")
Recliners are the perfect piece of furniture. Lie back and put your feet up after a hard day at work.
How common are recliners world wide? Would I find one in most of Europe? Germany, Italy, Greece or France? How about Asia? India, Japan, Korea? Middle east? Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE? The Scandinavian countries?
a modern style
[ ](http://elitechoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/gravity-balans_emuml_48.jpg)
[http://cdn.furniturefashion.com/image/2010/02/ergonomic%20recliners.jpg](http://cdn.furniturefashion.com/image/2010/02/ergonomic%20recliners.jpg)
the classic recliner
[http://wwws.boscovs.com/wcsstore/boscovs//images/store/department/dept\_image/recliners\_d.jpg](http://wwws.boscovs.com/wcsstore/boscovs//images/store/department/dept_image/recliners_d.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/2 "2014-01-13T19:05:35Z")
You can find them throughout Europe, but I can tell you that in Spain they actually seem to be more common in store windows than in homes. Heck, since IKEA has them, you can find them in a ton of countries 😃
It’s one of those things that everybody knows what they are but an old-fashioned combo of [armchair plus footrest](http://www.mueblescampillo.com/catalogo/catalog.php?id=933) takes up a lot less space and is a lot cheaper.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/3 "2014-01-14T00:32:28Z")
I hadn’t thought about IKEA. You’re right that would make recliners available in a lot of countries.
I just wondered if I’d find a dad in Norway or Germany in his recliner with the tv remote. I wasn’t sure if that was an American thing or not.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/4 "2014-01-14T02:58:18Z")
Common-as in Australia.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/5 "2014-01-14T13:07:33Z")
You see them in the UK, but I tend to think of them as something older people have. My gran had one. My parents (in their 60s) have them. I don’t, and not many of my friends do. (Maybe partly because we live in smaller homes, and recliners take up a lot of space.)
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### Author:  [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/6 "2014-01-14T13:14:39Z")
Common (although not particularly popular) in New Zealand. The original brand was Lay-Z-Boy(?) and it is associated with old folk.
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/7 "2014-01-14T17:22:57Z")
> [@Colophon](#):
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> You see them in the UK, but I tend to think of them as something older people have. My gran had one. My parents (in their 60s) have them. I don’t, and not many of my friends do. (Maybe partly because we live in smaller homes, and recliners take up a lot of space.)
I think you’re right; they’re targeted at older people in the UK, and they are probably fairly popular with the over-60 demographic.
However, I’ve got a [Ligne Roset Petite Seiste](https://shop.ligne-roset.co.uk/store/842-p-petite-sieste-armchair.html) which looked very at home in the über-modern flat we used to live in.
We’re now in a Victorian terrace, and although it looks just fine now it’s been re-covered in more appropriate fabric (it was charcoal grey, and is now in a bonkers, over-the-top William Morris-y fabric), there is truth in what you say about smaller room sizes. I can only just tilt it back to its full extent without the head-rest hitting the wall, and the foot-rest hitting the telly.
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/8 "2014-01-14T17:46:53Z")
Here you go **aceplace57** , to help satisfy your curiosity of worldwide reclinerage, [here’s a modern French designed recliner](https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=63300038D4FD08DE!10013&authkey=!AGUgqxm9XkjjUv0&v=3&ithint=photo%2c.jpg), covered in Victorian-inspired fabric, in a London house.
Enjoy 🙂
Yeah… I know it’s a bit of a mongrel, but I love it. I’ve had many happy hours in that puppy.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-are-recliners-world-wide/678674/9 "2014-01-14T20:52:41Z")
That’s an eye catcher Robdog. Looks comfy. 😉
I didn’t have a recliner until my middle thirties. I’d relax lying on the sofa. I find that a recliner is more comfortable.