Sitting on the floor without a backrest lasts about twenty minutes before the lower back gives up. This chair puts a frame behind that posture and lets the angle move through fourteen separate positions, from fully upright to a backrest laid at 84 degrees and on down to flat, so reading, watching TV and playing games each get their own setting rather than one compromise angle. The seat is rated to 200 lbs and the backrest separately to 77 lbs, two figures worth reading together because a floor chair takes weight differently when someone leans back hard against the rest. Padding is thick sponge under flannel or coral velvet depending on finish, deep enough that the frame underneath is never felt through the cushion during a long session. That frame is alloy-steel pipe, which is what carries the repeated folding without the joints working loose over a season. Laid fully flat the chair measures 41.5 by 22 by 6 in, near enough to a floor mat that a guest can sleep on it, and it doubles as extra seating when a living room runs short. Folded it drops to roughly 26 by 21 by 21 in, small enough to slide under a bed, a couch or a desk instead of standing in a corner between uses. The whole chair weighs 11 lbs, so it moves between a living room and a bedroom in one hand rather than being dragged.