There seems to be two major styles of seating in dedicated home theatres. The first is seating made specifically for home theatres, mostly ostentatious numbers with recline and extending footrests, trays, drink holders. Subtle as Gold Class. There are lots of variations but until now I'd only seen one I could live with, by King Living Furniture. It looks good and it doesn't feel like sitting on a waterbed. I wrote about it last year and lots of people were interested.

The second style is vintage cinema seating bought from an actual theatre that has either closed down or been refurbished. The visual appeal of this is obvious and heritage is always a nice touch, but most aren't terribly comfortable and you can forget the drink holders.

Just lately I've seen a third treatment, admittedly a one-off but refreshingly quirky. Directors chairs. Very nice directors chairs I might add, but unmistakably the sort of things that John Ford and John Wayne used to sit in when chatting between takes in Monument Valley, their names stencilled onto the rear of the backrests so no one else dared use them. In this case the backrests carried the embroidered names of family members, and those left over were marked "Guest". I would have labelled them "Freeloader".

Now there's a new entrant in that first category called Row One. I was fossicking around a hi-fi shop the other day and came across it, and it's another seating system that I'd have at my place. It may even be acceptable to my wife. Okay, it isn't as nice as the King Living offering but a row of three seats from King will set you back around $11,000. Three of these all linked up start at $4497 and go up to $6997.

They're imported fully built up from the US and there are four styles in the range starting with the Prestige at $1899 for a single seat, $6196 for a block of four, working up to the Ambassador: $2799 for the single to $9796 for the block of four. All models are upholstered in leather. I like the simple lines of the Ambassador and the Prestige. The two middle models, Carmel and Evolution, look a bit ornate for me.

The one in which I parked my butt was an Ambassador, and at the time it was the only example of a Row One in the state. It looks better in the flesh than it does in the picture and it's nicely comfortable; soft enough to be cosseting, supportive enough to get through enough episodes of House of Cards to reach an election result.

The backrest and footrest are powered and can be stopped anywhere in their travel, the powered headrest (available on three models) is adjustable for height and rake and holds your head nicely near to vertical, so watching the screen is effortless. The cup holder is refrigerated and has a gentle LED with an on/off switch. There's a USB charger, too.

And, important this, when the upright chair is placed just 15cm from the wall it backs onto, all models can be fully reclined without hitting the wall. They can be lined up straight or curved and ganging devices lock them together with shared armrests.

The importer says all his dealers who have seen them have placed orders and that the first shipment was due to arrive soon. If you want to place an order at one of the handful of local dealers that will offer the chairs (and there are three colours, black, brown and red), expect a wait of six to eight weeks.