BH | Studio Ludlow Nailhead Dining Chairs, Set of 4

The Parsons chair, a fully upholstered dining chair on straight legs, borrows its name and its clean lines from the Parsons table, a design that came out of the Paris branch of the Parsons School of Design in the 1930s. Nailheads, round-headed upholstery tacks set close together along an edge, have finished good chairs since the seventeenth century, when English chairmakers studded leather-covered seats with rows of brass nails, and they give this one a more stately bearing.

Each of these four chairs has a tall back, its top corners flared like small wings, and a deep seat padded in dense foam that keeps everyone comfortable through a long meal. A line of silver-toned nailheads finishes the base of every seat. Solid wood frames carry a woven fabric in Oyster, Bark or Pewter, on dark legs with non-marking glides that protect the floor.

Four make a full set for a square kitchen table in a family house, where the chairs see breakfast, homework and late suppers alike, with a bowl of apples always in the middle. Around a rectangular table they suit a dining room that is used every day, not saved for best. Each shade looks warm with honey oak, cream paint and checked curtains, and polished with silver candlesticks and white china. This listing is for a set of four chairs.