BH | Studio Cassis Button-Tufted Dining Chairs, Set of 2

The upholstered dining chair came into its own in the nineteenth century, when coiled springs and deep buttoning, tufts pulled tight through the padding and anchored with cloth-covered buttons, made a formal seat comfortable enough for a long dinner, nowhere more elegantly than in the dining rooms of nineteenth-century France. Close-nailing, rows of round-headed upholstery tacks along the edges, is older still, and has framed good chairs since the seventeenth century.

Each chair has a high, softly curved back, buttoned deep across the front and trimmed with nailheads along the sides. The seats are well cushioned in foam for comfort at long dinners, and both chairs are covered in a lively green polyester weave. Black tapered wooden legs carry them, finished with caps that keep floors from scratching.

Use the pair at either end of a long table as host chairs, with plainer chairs along the sides, or set them at a small round table in a breakfast nook. Fresh green looks lovely with white walls and a botanical wallpaper, rattan pendants and blue-and-white china, and it brings a garden feel to a dining room in a town house. This listing is for a set of two chairs.