BH | Studio Rungsted Sling-Back Dining Armchair

The sling chair, a seat and back of hide stretched across an open wooden frame, has roots in the campaign furniture of the nineteenth century, made to be strong, simple and easy to carry. Scandinavian makers of the mid-twentieth century refined the idea with leather and pale solid wood.

This is the armed version, with flat wooden arms running from the front legs to the rear posts, so there is somewhere to rest your elbows over coffee or while you push back from the table. The frame is pale solid hardwood throughout, its grain left visible, and smooth leather in Caramel or Tobacco is slung between the posts as seat and back and strapped underneath, giving a supportive, slightly yielding seat. Low rails brace the legs, and it arrives fully assembled.

Put one at each end of a long dining table with side chairs between, or use it as a desk chair in a study, where the arms make long meetings easier. A pair by a living room window with a small table and a coffee pot makes a place to linger, and one in a hall is a handsome seat for boots. The leather glows beside pale oak, sheepskin and big leafy plants.