Apartment Therapy: seating - dining & sidechairs

Softening Dining Chairs with Cushions

Dining chairs aren't always the most comfortable furniture, which is one of the reasons why people often add cushions. In addition to softening a seat, cushions can make a dining room feel more casu...

Chairs Made from Clothing

This is the flip-side of our earlier post on bikinis, dresses and socks for chairs. Whereas those pieces were made to (literally) dress up furniture, these designs are upcycled from old jeans, belts...

Bikinis, Dresses & Socks for Chairs

We hear a lot about how fashion and home design are related, but clothes for chairs? It seems a little out-there, but people have been outfitting chairs with caps, jackets, and even bikinis for a wh...

New: Sleek Slatted Rocker

Often times we aren't looking for our furniture to bring in the bright pops of color we've been talking all month about, but would rather leave that to our accessories, windows and floors. One of ou...

"X" Marks the Spot

Furnishings with X motifs conjure for us one of two things: Sinewy cross braces bring to mind steely structural feats. Rigid wooden X's make us think of more traditional designs. We've gathered a fe...

Basic Wooden Dining Chairs Under $150

We're always on the lookout for affordable dining chairs that someone could buy in a set without spending a fortune. Basic wood is a classic look that goes with almost any type of table, and these w...

Bentwood Dining Chairs, Five Ways

Bentwood chairs are classic dining room decor, whether it's Thonet's long-standing and best-selling #14, a knockoff, or a more recent incarnation of this old cafe staple. For five different approach...

Panton Chairs as Desk Chairs

Last December, Apartment Therapy Boston bloggers Wes and Kayla suggested that the Panton chair just might be the "perfect desk chair". We liked the look with their Blu Dot desk and "bookmarked" it as ...

Roundup: Green Chairs

We're feeling very basic today...it's one of those white t-shirt and blue jeans days. When we caught this photo of a green chair from Living Etc., something about its simplicity spoke to us, and we ...

One Mod Chair, Five Ways

Verner Panton's S chair is one of those classic mod designs that looks great in a lot of different contexts. Made from plastic, it can be used either indoors or outside......

Kinetic Opens to the Public
Montreal

Kinetic Living Concept is a Montreal-based company providing reproduction and original design furnishings for the home. Up until now, they were distributors of contemporary furnishings to retailers ...

Chair Socks: Give Your Furniture Some Fashion

This morning we spotted these funny little socks... for your chairs. Some part of us is thinking how silly they are, while the other part is wondering, why we didn't think this up ourselves. There'...

Hanging Spare Chairs from the Wall

The Shakers used to do it, and now we're seeing it more and more in small living spaces. If you need spare chairs when you have a dinner party, but you don't have the space to store them, consider ...

5 Ways to Use a Spare Chair

Spare chairs can be cheap to come by, and they're helpful when you need extra seating for a dinner party. The only problem is figuring out what to do with them when they're not being put to use......

Heavy Metals at Etsy

click thumbnails for larger pics These five Etsy finds are made of steel. From a heavy steel plate bed to a delicate crocheted wire dish, each of these designs incorporates cool crisp metallics in on...

How To: Overcome Your Reupholstering Fears

click thumbnails for larger picsAfter chickening out a few years ago on a DIY upholstery job, I took an old side chair and a piece of fabric I'd been saving to a pro. Although happy with the results,...

Hot or Not? Prince Charles Chairs by Peter Shire

According to Modernica, these Prince Charles (as in Eames) chairs are an example of Peter Shire giving "Mid Century the royal treatment". What do you think? Hot or Not?...

Old and New Dining Chairs from Thonet

German designer Stefan Diez debuted his line of new bentwood tables and chairs for Thonet in 2007-08. We're going to go out on a limb and say that we think these hold their own with the original cla...

Dining Rooms with Emeco's Navy Chair

Straight from Emeco's gallery, we see a few great dining tables using the classic aluminum Navy Chair. As featured in New York Home, the dining room above combines the modern classic with a row of t...

Dining Chairs from Walter E. Smithe

Detailed, ornate, fussy. However you'd label these chairs, we were surprised that Walter E. Smithe offered some intrigue during our online dining chair perusing. Not for everyone, but not to be ignore...

5 New Pieces from Elle Decoration's Designer of the Year: Matthew Hilton

Elle Decoration named Matthew Hilton "Designer of the Year" for 2008 at the British Design Awards in October. His work was described as "team[ing] tactile wood with strong, sinuous shapes for a vint...

Modern "Wicker" from Vincent Sheppard

European furniture company Vincent Sheppard specializes in an adaptation of wicker that's been around since the early 1900s: Lloyd Loom weaves, originally made from kraft paper twisted around a stee...

Bright Furniture from House Eclectic

The tables, seating, bookcases and storage available through House Eclectic offer a range of great colors, based on Benjamin Moore matches. Each piece has its own set of options, so not all 9 colors (...

Roundup: Angel Wings for the Home

With Halloween fast approaching, how about a little goodness mixed in with the ghosts and ghouls? Inspired by the space above, we set out to round up some angel wings for the home. We see some redee...

Dining Chairs from Jayson Home & Garden

Whether out of necessity or style preference, we've long admired a mismatched dining table and chairs. This is a good option if you have no need to switch out a whole set, but just want a new look. Ad...

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