If there is only one item that Austin Rothbard, president of American luxury furniture label Baker, can recommend to Chinese consumers, he will pick the Athens Lounge Chair Tufted - which is limited to 10 pieces in the Chinese market.

This product, he says, is a reflection of Chinese people's growing taste for luxury furniture.

The creation from Washington D.C.-based furniture designer Thomas Pheasant is a clever interpretation of traditional style with the chair's legs and the back having a smooth and elegant curve. But it is contrasted with a light golden velvet cushion, made of leather, which looks exquisitely modern.