How low can you go?

A friend of mine was doing a seminar at the interior design fair here in Tartu, and invited me to hang out.

Lots of cool-looking furniture, surprisingly useable (if you've read the previous post you will understand that such things are relevant to me at this point). One point though:

Why does the furniture today have to be so low? In the entire trade show there was not a single couch you could just sit on. All of them are barely off the ground, thus creating a nearly unreachable crevice for dust to gather as well as requiring a calculated trajectory to land on (and a minor excavation job to get up from).

Ridiculous.