Reading corner ideasReading corner, in six pieces

The best reading corner ideas start with a chair you actually want to sit in. This one is a leather butterfly chair, low and slouchy, the kind that gets softer and better with every winter.

Light comes from above with an arc lamp in chrome on a marble base, so you can read without a lamp in your way. Next to it, a velvet stool in moss green works as a footrest, a side table or a place to leave the book face down. A leopard cushion in emerald velvet with a fringe adds a bit of humour, because a reading corner should feel like yours and not like a showroom.

For the wall, a fan on the wall in plum and coral gives the corner a focal point without hanging a single frame. And brass candle holders on a shelf for the evenings when the lamp feels like too much. Six pieces, one corner, no excuse to scroll instead of read.