Recliners That Don’t Look Like Recliners: The Full Lineup

La-Z-Boy Southeast | July 29, 2026

“I want the comfort, but I don’t want it to look like a recliner.” It’s one of the most common things we hear on the sales floor, and it’s a fair ask. A recliner used to announce itself from across the room — bulky arms, a low stance, and an obvious handle on the side.

That’s no longer the trade-off. La-Z-Boy builds an entire category around chairs that read as tailored accent seating until you actually lean back. They’re called high leg recliners, and there are 18 of them in the current lineup of recliners that don’t look like recliners.

Here’s the whole collection, plus how to tell which ones truly disappear into a room.

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The Hidden Recliner Collection

High leg styles that read as accent chairs until you lean back.

Press-Back High Leg Recliners 13 styles

Power Styles With Accent Details 5 styles

All styles made to order and customizable in your choice of fabrics and leathers. Product photos courtesy of La-Z-Boy.

What Actually Makes a Recliner Disappear

Three design choices do most of the work here, and once you know them, you’ll spot a hidden recliner instantly.

The legs. Conventional recliners hide their mechanism behind an upholstered skirt that runs to the floor. High leg styles lift the frame onto exposed wood legs instead, so you see light and floor underneath. That single change is why the chair reads as furniture rather than equipment.

The mechanism. Most of these chairs are press-back, which means there’s no handle and no lever on the side. You simply lean back, and the legrest comes up in two set positions. Because nothing protrudes from the arm, the profile stays clean. Therefore, a recliner that doesn’t look like a recliner!

The proportions. A hidden recliner is narrower and more upright than a standard one. The lineup ranges from 29.5 inches wide up to 40 inches, and the slimmer end of that range is where the illusion really holds.

The Four People Ask About Most

These four came up most often when we first wrote about this category, and they’re still the ones customers name at the door.

Scarlett High Leg Recliner. Scarlett is the clean-slate option — casual tapered arms, tall wood legs, and a solid foam back that keeps the silhouette crisp. At 33 inches wide, it suits smaller sitters and tighter rooms. Push back and you get two positions of instant reclining comfort.

Charlotte High Leg Recliner. Charlotte is the softer, more traditional cousin. Its arms are both rolled and flared, and the tapered wood legs are noticeably slim. It’s the same 33-inch width as Scarlett, so the two are easy to compare side by side.

Riley High Leg Recliner. Riley leans contemporary, with a sculpted shape and inviting curves that pair well with a modern sofa. It’s wider at 35.5 inches and scaled for taller sitters. It’s also GreenGuard Certified, which matters if indoor air quality is on your list.

Bennett duo® Reclining Chair. Bennett is the surprise of the group. Rolled cigar arms and tapered wood legs make it look entirely stationary — however, both the back and legrest are powered independently. A built-in USB port sits in the side-mounted control, and it runs on wall power or an optional battery pack.

The Press-Back Styles, One by One

These 13 are the truest to the “doesn’t look like a recliner” idea, because none of them has a visible handle.

Scarlett — 33″ wide; casual tapered arms and a structured foam back
Charlotte — 33″ wide; rolled and flared arms on slim tapered legs
Riley — 35.5″ wide; sculpted contemporary shape, GreenGuard Certified
Kimberly — 29.5″ wide; a softly-tailored wing back on cabriole legs, and the most petite in the lineup
Carleton — 36″ wide; bold brass nail head trim with four finish options
Eldorado — 32.5″ wide; Mission-inspired with exposed wood arms and an updated chaise seat
Rheeves — 33.5″ wide; classic welt trim over a foam back and attached seat
Haven — 35″ wide; a tight back with sculpted rolled arms and welt detail throughout
Brentwood — 33.5″ wide; mid-century cues including tall conical legs, exposed wings, and a tufted back
Audrey — 31.5″ wide; elegantly tapered arms and a chambered box-border back
Dante — 29.5″ wide; a modern take on the wing back, and tied for narrowest in the group
Ferndale — 32″ wide; distinctive key-shaped arms from the Urban Attitudes® collection, with a matching ottoman available
Rae — 30.5″ wide; a compact high leg style scaled for smaller sitters

Worth noting: Carleton, Rheeves, Audrey, and Brentwood each have a power version with a headrest, in case you want the same look with motorized recline.

Power Styles With Accent Details

These five sit in the same category and share the decorative-leg treatment. That said, they’re built at a fuller scale, so they read more like recliners than the press-back group does.

Quinault — 33″ wide; the most convincing of the power group, with gently sloping track arms and decorative legs that genuinely conceal what it is. Zero gravity recline, power-tilt headrest, and USB.
Bennett duo® — 37.5″ wide; rolled cigar arms, tapered legs, ComfortCore® cushion, and independently powered back and legrest
Colby duo® — 39″ wide; transitional styling with rolled arms and padded outer arms and back
Acadia — 39″ wide; clean, linear lines with chunky track arms and a waterfall chaise seat
Clybourn — 40″ wide; classic cigar arms with welt trim, and the widest chair in the lineup

If the goal is truly hiding the recliner, start with Quinault. Meanwhile, the other four are better framed as handsome power recliners than as chairs in disguise.

How to Narrow It Down

A few questions sort most people quickly.

How much wall space do you have? Under 32 inches, look at Kimberly, Dante, Rae, or Audrey. Over 36 inches, the power styles open up.

How tall are you? Kimberly and Quinault are scaled for sitters 5’3″ and under. Scarlett, Charlotte, Haven, and Rae fit the 5’4″ to 5’9″ range. Most of the rest are built for 5’10” to 6’2″.

Manual or power? Press-back keeps the cleanest profile, because there’s nothing to see and nothing to plug in. Power gives you infinite positions and a headrest — however, you’ll need an outlet or a battery pack nearby.

What’s the room’s style? Kimberly and Carleton lean traditional. Brentwood is mid-century. Acadia and Ferndale are the most contemporary of the group.

Every style is made to order, so you’re choosing the shape and the fabric or leather. There are hundreds of options, and the cover you pick affects how much the chair blends in as much as the frame does. A tight-woven neutral, for example, reads far more like an accent chair than a heavy textured cover would.

If you like the idea of a chair that does more than it lets on, our swivel chair and recliner lineup works on a similar principle — the motion is built in, but the styling stays quiet.

See Them in Person

Photos can only tell you so much here. The whole point of these chairs is how they look sitting in a room — so the honest test is walking past one and not registering it as a recliner. Stop by any of our locations in NC, SC, and GA and try a few.

If you’re weighing two or three against your existing sofa, our free design service can help you match the chair to the rest of the room before you commit.