BH | Studio Bampton Tufted Dining Chair

The wing chair was born in late seventeenth-century England, its side wings set to hold the fire's warmth and keep drafts off the sitter. Victorian upholsterers added deep buttoning, stitched buttons that anchor the padding in a quilted pattern, and when both ideas came to the dining table they gave it a chair with real presence.

The back rises tall and flares gently at the shoulders into small wings, deep-buttoned across the inside and smooth behind, while the seat and legs keep the clean, straight lines of a Parsons chair, the fully upholstered side chair that became a dining room standard in the twentieth century. Dense foam pads both seat and back for a comfortable sit through a long dinner, and the frame is solid hardwood with engineered wood, on dark legs with non-marking glides. The soft woven cover comes in a clean, true white or in Oyster, Pewter, Smoke or Blood Orange.

Set it at the head of a pale oak table, where the fabric against dark legs gives a crisp, tailored look, with linen napkins and a jug of white tulips. Away from the dining room it earns its keep as a desk chair in a home office, a seat in a living room corner beside a reading lamp, or a perch in the entryway for doing up shoes. A pair either side of a hall console makes a smart welcome. This listing is for one chair.