BH | Studio Rungsted Sling-Back Dining Chair

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 armless chair is an open frame of solid hardwood, square-edged, with rails set low between the legs to brace it. Smooth leather in Caramel or Tobacco forms the back and seat, slung across the frame and strapped beneath, so it gives a little as you sit and then holds you upright: a firm, supportive seat for a long meal or a meeting. The solid wood shows its natural grain, and the leather will deepen and soften with years of use. It arrives fully assembled, ready to pull up to the table.

Use a run of them around a scrubbed wooden table in a kitchen or dining room, or set one at a desk, where it serves an afternoon of calls as well as dinner. In a hallway it gives somewhere to pull on shoes, and in a bedroom it holds the next day's clothes. Leather and solid wood bring a Danish calm to a bright room of white walls, linen curtains and a paper pendant.