The dining chair is the piece of furniture that gets used more than almost anything else in the house and it is almost always chosen last, as an afterthought to the table. That is a mistake. The chair is where people actually sit, for dinner, for homework, for the long end of an evening when nobody wants to move. Comfort matters enormously and so does scale, because a chair that looks right in a showroom can overwhelm a real dining room entirely. We have also found that mismatched chairs, done with intention rather than accident, nearly always look better than a matching set. There is something more considered about it. What we look for is a chair that earns its place visually and physically, one that holds up to daily life without looking like it was bought purely for durability. These are the dining chairs we would actually pull up to our own tables.