Best High Weight Capacity Accent Chairs Review

These are uniformly good numbers, in our view. The seat dimensions are a good pairing with the maximum supported weight, and even if you’re quite close to the chair’s 400-pound limit, the seat is almost certain to be wide enough to accommodate you comfortably.

Overall, it’s a great, well-priced piece of furniture that would make a fantastic addition to almost any home. We feel it is well-deserving of top honors here. We recommend it.

Our second-place offering here in our roundup review of the best accent chairs for heavy people is interesting because, in some ways, it’s highly similar to our top pick, while in other ways, it offers stark contrasts. For starters, like the chair offered by Jennifer Taylor, this is a great-looking piece of furniture, though its beauty takes a very different form. Where the Jennifer Taylor chair has a look of elegance and refinement, the Milan offers a simple, understated beauty.

That’s superb, and with proper care, this chair is likely to outlast every other model on our list, but of course, there’s a tradeoff where that’s concerned; the Milan is far and away the most expensive accent chair on our list of finalists. This fact, more than anything else, is why it ultimately earned a second-place spot, rather than top-honors. Many mere mortals on a budget simply won’t be able to afford this one. 

Before we go further, let’s do a quick stats review. Here are the basics:

No matter how you slice it, this chair is absolutely amazing, and assuming you can afford one, you’re going to absolutely love it. We recommend it.

If you have an eye for décor and a bit of an artistic flair, you’re going to love the Moe’s Home Collection Club Chair. Like our top two picks, this is a gorgeous chair. The interesting thing about all of the chairs we’ve talked about to this point here in our roundup review of the best heavy duty accent chairs is the fact that they’re each attractive in different ways.

The Jennifer Taylor chair is elegant and refined. The Milan chair offers a simple, timeless, rustic beauty, and this one boasts fun, modern styling that most people will love.

Good furniture has to be more than just pretty, however. It also has to be robust, rugged, and functional, and Moe’s Club Chair is all of those things. Before we say more though, let’s do as what we have done so far and take a look at the numbers that define the model:

Almost all of these numbers are excellent. The seat dimensions are a superb pairing with the supported weight limit. Unlike the burly Milan, this model is light enough that if you decide you want to move it to some other room in your house, you won’t need any assistance to do so.

The only potential problem here is the fact that the seat is only 16” high. Given that the seat height on big and tall furniture typically starts at 18” and goes up from there, if you’re a taller individual and especially if you suffer from any sort of mobility issue, getting into and out of this chair might be a bit of a challenge.

Again though, it’s important to remember what these chairs were designed for. As occasional seats, that may be an issue once in a while, but it’s not likely to be a huge deal most of the time. Even so, it’s important enough to give it a quick mention here.

First, owing to the fact that it utilizes top-quality leather upholstery, this is the second most expensive chair on our list. Second, not everyone is going to appreciate or be a huge fan of the contemporary aesthetic, which makes it a bit more narrowly targeted than some of our other finalists. Finally, that seat height of 16” is going to be problematic for at least a segment of the potential market for this chair. Maybe not a huge swath, but it does further limit the market.

Overall, we love it, though, and assuming none of the things we mentioned above are deal-breakers for you, this chair deserves a spot on your shortlist for consideration. We recommend it.

If you’re a fan of the retro, fifties styling, then you’re going to love our fourth-place entrant, offered by Modway. Haven’t heard of Modway? They’re a smallish brand, but they’ve been in the game for a long time. While they might not be a household name, they do have a reputation for making low-cost, good looking furniture of decent quality, and their Mid-Century accent chair is an excellent example of their work.

Before we say more, let’s continue our tradition of reviewing the basic stats that define this model. Here they are:

These numbers all work very well together. Note that this chair has a higher maximum supported weight limit than our top three picks. Granted, it’s only forty pounds more, but that could mean the difference between the chair being a viable option or not for some people.

Also, note that the seat dimensions are an excellent fit for the maximum supported weight and that the seat height is solidly in big and tall territory at 19”. Finally, while this is a sizeable piece of furniture, it’s light enough that if you decided you wanted to move it around the room, or even to another part of your house, you could do that without particular difficulty and probably without getting any assistance.

They’re basically following the same arc that Japan did. There was a time when nobody wanted anything the Japanese made because it was all regarded as junk. Now Japanese products are synonymous with quality, and China is moving down that road too.

Where comfort and upholstery are concerned, there are no surprises here. These chairs rely on conventional block foam padding with low-cost, low-quality polyester fabric stretched over it.

There’s nothing wrong with the block foam. It’s standard fare where seat padding is concerned. Here, you’ll find an impressive six inches of it, making it more than comfortable enough for occasional seating and even pretty comfortable for longer duration seating in a pinch.

The upholstery is a bit of a disappointment but not really a surprise. Undoubtedly, polyester was chosen because it's inexpensive, which helps keep the cost of the chair down. It’s also authentic to the period, which in that regard is a nice touch.

These numbers are generally okay, but there are two potential problems. First, we love the impressive amount of weight the chair supports. It’s tied for first place in that regard with our fourth-place winner, Modway. Unfortunately, where the rest of Modway’s dimensions were a good pairing with the chair’s maximum supported weight, these numbers aren’t nearly as good a fit.

The seat is quite narrow, and if you’re even close to the chair’s 440-pound weight limit, you’ll want to take a quick measurement to be sure you’ll fit comfortably into it. In our view, this would be a much stronger model if the seat width and depth values were swapped, which would make it roomy enough to accommodate people very close to the chair’s maximum supported weight limit.

As to the upholstery, polyester is the lowest common denominator. It and PU are the most common upholstery choices in low-cost furniture. While it’s reasonably attractive, it’s not terribly breathable or durable. Even if you take expert care of it, you’ll find that it starts showing its age after about a year of moderate daily use, or 18-24 months if you only use it a couple hours of each day.

The two real selling points here are:

1. The fun, retro aesthetic
2. The super low price

If you’re a fan of the retro look and you don’t have a lot of money to spend, and you only need a chair, this is a good option to consider (if you need a whole matching set, you’re better off getting the Modway we just talked about!). On that basis, we provisionally recommend it.

Although this chair didn’t score quite high enough to earn a spot on our list of finalists, we wanted to at least give it a quick mention. At first glance, this isn’t an obvious choice for a home accent chair. It looks much more like the type of chair you’d find at your dentist’s office. Even so, if you’re a fan of the Spartan, minimalist aesthetic this chair offers, it’s a solid choice and is well worth considering.

These are very good numbers. The seat height and width are both great compliments to the impressive supported weight limit, but the standard caveat applies here. If you’re close to this chair’s maximum supported weight limit, you’ll want to take a quick measurement to be sure you’ll fit comfortably into the chair.

The main reason this chair deserves special consideration is the weight limit. It’s essentially double that of every other model on our list of finalists. That alone makes it well worth considering, even if you’re not a huge fan of the minimalist look and feel of the chair.

We actually like this model a lot more than its overall score indicates. It’s a rock-solid piece of furniture that will provide you with years of reliable service. The minimalist look might even work in its favor in some home décor schemes since it will tend to blend politely into the background with proper upholstery color selection.